Print Description
A park landscape with two large groups of people gathered outside. One of the men plays a guitar, while two of the women are gathering flowers from a bush.
Made by Roberts after Watteau.
Medium: Handcoloured engraving. on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 27.2 x 20.5 cm (10.71 x 8.07 inch). Image size: 18.5 x 16 cm. (7.28 x 6.3 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Light ghosting from previous matting. Light foxing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
PARK-LANDSCAPE-GUITAR-FLOWER-BUSH | DPO-PCO-2-38
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From ‘Payne’s Universum, or, Pictorial World’, published ca. 1850.
Biography engraver: Edward John Roberts (1797-1865). Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter whose career spurned the revival of interest in colour and movement, and is credited with moving the Baroque style into the less classical Rococo. His most famous paintings are so-called Fetes-Galantes, scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm combined with an air of theatricality.
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