Antique Master Print-BACKGAMMON GAME-PEASANTS-Beauvarlet-Teniers-1746-1760

Made by Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet after David Teniers the Younger.

Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 33 x 43.7 cm (12.99 x 17.2 inch). Image size: 27 x 37.5 cm. (10.63 x 14.76 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light ghosting from previous framing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

BACKGAMMON GAME-PEASANTS | PCO-E8-8

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published by: Pierre Fouquet in Amsterdam.

Reference: IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Fran?ais: BibliothEque Nationale, DEpartement des Estampes (19).

Biography engraver: Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (1731-1797), a celebrated engraver, was born at Abbeville in 1731. He went to Paris when young, and was instructed in the art by Charles Dupuis and Laurent Cars. His first manner was bold and free, and his plates in that style are preferred by some to the more finished and highly-wrought prints that he afterwards produced, although it must be confessed that the latter are executed with great neatness and delicacy. Beauvarlet married, in 1761, Catherine Jeanne Fran?oise Deschamps, a young lady who possessed some skill in engraving, but who died in 1769 at the age of thirty-one. He married again in 1770, but became for a second time a widower in 1779. Eight years later, in 1787, he married Marie Catherine Riollet, who, like his first wife, was an engraver. She was born in Paris in 1755, and is said to have died in 1788. Beauvarlet himself died in Paris in 1797.

Biography artist: David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II (bapt. 15 December 1610 – 25 April 1690) was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. He was an extremely versatile artist known for his prolific output. He was an innovator in a wide range of genres such as history painting, genre painting, landscape painting, portrait and still life. He is now best remembered as the leading Flemish genre painter of his day. Teniers is particularly known for developing the peasant genre, the tavern scene, pictures of collections and scenes with alchemists and physicians.