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Laurent Cars
La Serinette [Lady with a bird-organ], 1753
Engraving and etching on laid watermarked paper after Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
56 x 42 cm
LOPF 2026: Vistavka Fine Art, STAND S11
Literature: Bocher 47; IFF 3:123. Provenance: Gallery Paul Prouté, Paris (Gallery’old lable on the back). Beautiful crisp impression with full margins around deeply impressed platemark on heavy laid watermarked paper....
Literature: Bocher 47; IFF 3:123.
Provenance: Gallery Paul Prouté, Paris (Gallery’old lable on the back).
Beautiful crisp impression with full margins around deeply impressed platemark on heavy laid watermarked paper. Watermark: Double-headed eagle (Heawood 1316).
La Serinette was Chardin’s first royal commission from Louis XV, for which he received a payment of 1,500 livres. Cars’s print is dedicated to Marquis de Vandières, brother of Madame de Pompadour, into whose collection the painting eventually went. The print was described at length in the Mercure de France (November 1753), including the statement: ‘when two artists of this calibre are united, one announces their work with great boldness’.
Provenance: Gallery Paul Prouté, Paris (Gallery’old lable on the back).
Beautiful crisp impression with full margins around deeply impressed platemark on heavy laid watermarked paper. Watermark: Double-headed eagle (Heawood 1316).
La Serinette was Chardin’s first royal commission from Louis XV, for which he received a payment of 1,500 livres. Cars’s print is dedicated to Marquis de Vandières, brother of Madame de Pompadour, into whose collection the painting eventually went. The print was described at length in the Mercure de France (November 1753), including the statement: ‘when two artists of this calibre are united, one announces their work with great boldness’.
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