Print Description
(‘Village love or Naive love’) A shepherd kneels in supplication for this elgant high class lad, who is beyond his reach. She spurns his avances, and pushes him away.
Made by Lepicie after Charles Coypel.
Medium: Etching / engraving. on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 25 x 35.7 cm (9.84 x 14.06 inch). Image size: 24.5 x 34.5 cm. (9.65 x 13.58 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Margins a little soiled, a small crease from the left margin into the caption below the image. Remains of paper and tape on rear from previous attachment. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
VILLAGE LOVE-SHEPHERD-SPURNED | DPO-PCO-1-10
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Source: unknown, to be determined.
Biography engraver: Francois Bernard Lepicie (1698-1755) was a French engraver from a family of engravers. He became secretary and historiographer of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, in which capacity he compiled a catalogue of the paintings in the French royal collection and an important set of lives of the Premiers Peintres du Roi.
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Biography artist: Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752) was a French painter, art commmentator and playwright. He was the son of Antoine Coypel and grandson Noel Coypel.
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