Name: Antique Print-VOSGES-CULTURE-TRADITIONAL-ATTIRE-MAN-WOMAN-Boutlay-Grasset-1797
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Antique Print-VOSGES-CULTURE-TRADITIONAL-ATTIRE-MAN-WOMAN-Boutlay-Grasset-1797

€75.00

‘HOMME ET FEMME DES VOGES.’

– (Man and Woman from the Vosges) This print captures a man and a woman from the Vosges region, engaged in a pastoral setting. The man appears in traditional rural attire suitable for work, including a hat, a vest, and trousers, with a rifle strapped to his back. The woman is depicted in a dress with regional patterns, her outfit completed with a bonnet, indicative of the local fashion. They are seated near a spinning wheel, implying domestic industry, with the serene backdrop of the Vosges landscape, emphasizing their connection to the land and traditional livelihoods.

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(Man and Woman from the Vosges) This print captures a man and a woman from the Vosges region, engaged in a pastoral setting. The man appears in traditional rural attire suitable for work, including a hat, a vest, and trousers, with a rifle strapped to his back. The woman is depicted in a dress with regional patterns, her outfit completed with a bonnet, indicative of the local fashion. They are seated near a spinning wheel, implying domestic industry, with the serene backdrop of the Vosges landscape, emphasizing their connection to the land and traditional livelihoods.

Made by Boutlay after Jacques Grasset de Saint Sauveur.

Medium: Handcoloured line and aquatint etching on hand laid paper.

Sheet size: 20.5 x 26.1 cm (8.07 x 10.28 inch). Image size: 14.7 x 20.5 cm. (5.79 x 8.07 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Paper edges a bit irregular and brownish from binding. . General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

VOSGES-CULTURE-TRADITIONAL-ATTIRE-MAN-WOMAN-LABOR | PCO-C27-25

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Costumes de Differents Pays …’ by Jacques Grasset de Saint Sauveur, c.1797.

Biography engraver: Boutlay was a late 18th. C. engraver. .

Biography artist: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810) was born as son of a diplomat in Montreal, Canada. He was exposed to varying cultures at an early age.