Print Description
Original master print, titled: ‘Le Geste Napolitain’. It shows a dejected looking man, being sent on his way by the ‘Neopolitan gesture’ of dismissal from the grandmother of the woman he was wooing. Two small children sit nearby, one of whom is restaining a dog. Although the man is dressed and outfitted as a pedler, he wears a cross of nobility.
Made by Pierre-Etienne Moitte after Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
Medium: engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 49 x 41.5 cm (19.29 x 16.34 inch). Image size: 48 x 40.5 cm. (18.9 x 15.94 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Margins cropped close to the platemark. Two pinprick holes in the image, three pinpricks in the left margin. Bottom edge faintly dampstained. The sheet a bit warped. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
LE GESTE NAPOLITAIN | DP-B1-18
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Original antique master print. Our definition of a Master Print is a seperately published print or series of prints, not being an illustrative print to a text. These can both be prints made by old masters (artists) or prints made by others (artists, engravers, etchers) after old masters. Artists and Engravers: Engraved by Moitte after a painting by Greuze. This print was published by P.E. Moitte, in 1763.
Biography engraver: Pierre-Etienne Moitte (1722-1780) was a French engraver, from a family of artists. He studied with Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet, and Pierre-Francois Beaumont. He was accepted by the Academie Royale in 1771. His engravings were in part reason or the succes of Greuze’s idyllic genre paintings.
Biography artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) was a French painter, born in Tournus. He was taken under the wing of Grandon, who later took him to Lyon and Paris. From 1757 he exhibited in the Salon of the Academie.
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