2-Antique Prints-HORSE DRESSAGE-PRINTS-Picart-Eisenberg-1740

Description

Illustrations of horseback dressage riders, showing refined horse and rider poses with elegant detail.

Made by Bernard Picart after Friedrich Wilhelm von Eisenberg.

Medium: Hand-colored etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 23.5 x 31 cm (9.25 x 12.2 inch). Image size: 16 x 18.5 cm. (6.3 x 7.28 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Prints are in very good condition, set in attractive matting. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

HORSEBACK RIDING, DRESSAGE, BARON VON EISENBERG, 19TH-CENTURY PRINTS, BERNARD PICART, EQUESTRIAN ART. | EXPO-491-NATURE

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From ‘L’Art de monter a Cheval,’ originally published in 1740 by P. de Hondt in Den Haag.

Biography engraver: Bernard Picart (1673-1733), a French engraver and designer, was renowned for his allegorical and classical themes and significant contributions to book illustrations.

Biography artist: Friedrich Wilhelm von Eisenberg (1685-1764), also known as Friedrich Wilhelm Baron Reis de’ Eisenberg, was a German riding and stable master who wrote important specialist literature and created remarkable illustrations for it.