La Sculpture

Etching and engraving, circa 1690, signed at lower right.

From the set of the Seven Liberal Arts, after Jacques Antoine Friquet de Vauroze.

This work is part of the "Le Cabinet des beaux Arts ou Recueil d'Estampes gravées d'apres les Tableaux d'un plafond ou les beaux Arts sont representés Avec l'explication de ces memes Tableaux" (Paris, G. Edelinck) 1690; containing 12 plates after a ceiling painting representing Apollo, Mercury, Minerva and allegories of the Liberal Arts, by and after various French artists.

A good impression, printed on contemporary laid paper, trimmed to the platemark, traces of surface dirt on recto, glue on verso, overall in good condition. Example of the second issue published by François Chereau.

Bibliografia

Préaud, Maxime (1998), "Edelinck, Gérard", vol. 9, p. 718, in The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner.