Antique Master Print-ITALIAN HUNT-DEER-HORSEBACK-FALCONRY-Le Bas-Wouwermans-1739

Subject: Antique Master Print, titled: ‘La Chasse a l’Italienne.’ – (The Italian Hunt.) A landscape with riders and pikemen hunting deer. A moorish boy leads a dog. A female rider is holding a falcon.

Condition: Very good, given age. Some small stains and light soiling in the margins. A small nick in the top margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Etching/engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 73.4 x 55.3 cm. The image size is ca. 59.8 x 40.5 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 28.9 x 21.8 inch. The image size is ca. 23.5 x 15.9 inch.

Part Number: 50357

Location: PCO-P3-02 / Expo-160

Description: Published in Paris by Genty.

Artists and Engravers: Made by ‘Le Bas’ after ‘Philippe Wouwermans’. 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. Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668) was a Dutch painter of landscapes, hunting and battle scenes.