Name: Antique Master Print-BON-GENRE-LA-STATUE-COSTUME-SATIRE-Gatine-1812
SKU: PICTURA-11758
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Antique Master Print-BON-GENRE-LA-STATUE-COSTUME-SATIRE-Gatine-1812

€195.00

‘LA STATUE ? LE BON GENRE, NO. 49 ? GATINE SCULP.’

– Satirical scene of a fashionable man posing a woman as if she were a neoclassical statue beside a lyre pedestal, while a connoisseur studies her intently through a lorgnette. Two seated women watch the performance amusedly.

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Description

Medium: Hand-coloured engraving on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 35.5 x 26 cm (13.98 x 10.24 inch). Image size: 24 x 19.5 cm. (9.45 x 7.68 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light spotting in margins, colours bright, clean plate impression. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

FRENCH SATIRE, COSTUME, NEOCLASSICAL POSE, BON GENRE, GATINE, PARIS, LORGNETTE, LYRE, 1812 | PCO-E5-12

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published by Pierre La Mesangere, Paris.

Reference: British Museum 1866,0407.906.

Biography engraver: Georges Jacques Gatine (active early 19th century) was a French engraver and illustrator known for his fashion and satirical prints, particularly for the Le Bon Genre series, which captured social behaviors and trends of post-Revolutionary France.