Antique Print-MORNING-TRAVELER-BRIDGE-OX-DONKEY-COW-Berghem-Le Bas-ca. 1750

Handcoloured etching/engraving? on laid paper. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 53.6 x 42.4 cm. The image size is ca. 45.7 x 36.6 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 21.1 x 16.7 inch. The image size is ca. 18 x 14.4 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘Le Matin.’ – (‘Morning’). This print shows a morning scene, with travelers on a donkey and ox, near a statue and bridge over a river. A herd with goats, cow, donkey and horse in the foreground. Source unknown, to be determined. Provenance: L.A. de Vries (Not in Lugt).Artists and Engravers: Made by ‘ Jacques Philippe Le Bas’ after ‘Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berghem’. 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. Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berghem (1622-1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, often populated with mythological and biblical figures.

Condition: Excellent, given age. A later fold down the middle of the image. Small stain in the left margin, and one in the caption below the image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-MORNING-TRAVELER-BRIDGE-OX-DONKEY-COW-BERGHEM-LE BAS

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