Print Description
Plate : ‘Le Berger Reveur’ (The Dreaming Shepherd). This plate shows a pastoral scene with a resting shepherd, sheep, cows and a dog. In the background are ruins.
Made by Jacques Philippe Le Bas after David Teniers the Younger.
Medium: engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 27.5 x 39.5 cm (10.83 x 15.55 inch). Image size: 26.5 x 36.5 cm. (10.43 x 14.37 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Paper partly slightly browned. Tear bottom edge ca. 4cm, repaired. Margins cropped. Bottom left and right corner weak. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
PASTORAL SCENE-SHEPHERD-COW-SHEEP-DOG | DP-A3-001-11
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This original antique print was published in France, dated 1741. Artists and Engravers: This plate engraved by J. P. le Bas after D. Teniers.
Biography engraver: 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.
Biography artist: David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690) was a Flemish artist, born in Antwerp. He was the son of David Teniers the Elder, while his son and grandson also became painters. He was a wildly prolific painter, creating over 900 works. During his life he started the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts, after having presided over the Antwerp guild of painters.
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