Description
This print shows a pastoral landscape with hills and trees. In the foreground on a sandy road people are walking like a farmer with a horse in front of a cart and a dog watching this scene.
Made by Gabrielle Perelle after Francisque Millet .
Medium: Engraving on Handlaid (verge) paper. Watermark: No.
Sheet size: 24 x 18.5 cm (9.45 x 7.28 inch). Image size: 22.8 x 17 cm. (8.98 x 6.69 inch).
Condition: fair, given age. Some old fold lines. Overall soiling. Some tears at right margin and bottom left, backed. Paper loss at top right, remargined. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
PASTORAL LANDSCAPE-FARMERS-HORSE WITH CART-DOG-HILLS-TREES | RB-A7-20 (RB-1001)
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This attractive print originates from ca. 1650. Published in Paris at Crepy in the Saint Jacques road. This print is published in the third state.
Provenance: Stamp on reverse, unidentified.
Biography engraver: Gabrielle Perelle (1603-177) was a french engraver.
Biography artist: Atributed to Francisque Millet (1642-1679).
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