Print Description
Plate: La Basse Cour (The Farmyard). It shows a farmer and his wife feeding cattle in a cowshed. Several pigs and chickens are also running around the foreground, and general farm equipment can be seen in the background. Rare.
Made by Jacques Philippe Le Bas after Teniers.
Medium: engraving / etching with hand colouring on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 55.5 x 45.5 cm (21.85 x 17.91 inch). Image size: 43.5 x 32.5 cm. (17.13 x 12.8 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Margins with some faint foxing, top edge with two tape repairs. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
FAMRYARD-BASSE COUR-CATTLE-PIG-CHICKEN | DP-B1-03
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Rare original master print published by Le Bas (Paris) in 1743. Artists and Engravers: Engraved by Jacques Philippe Le Bas after David Teniers the Younger.
Biography engraver: Jacques Philippe Le Bas or Lebas (1707 -1783) was a French engraver. Le Bas was engraver to the Cabinet du roi and successfully produced engravings after several paintings by different artists. His oeuvre amounts to more than 500 works, including many large portraits after Vernet, and several works after van de Velde, Parrocel, Berchem, Ruysdael, Watteau, Oudry and Lancret.
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