La petite Loge after Moreau le Jeune - 1910 Heliogravure

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Heliogravure of 1910 after "La petite Loge", engraved with the burin by Jean-Baptiste Patas from a drawing by Jean-Michel Moreau … Read more Heliogravure of 1910 after "La petite Loge", engraved with the burin by Jean-Baptiste Patas from a drawing by Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune. A lady in a great court dress turns in the box of a theater among her companions, with the lighted house beyond. Below the image are the signatures of the draftsman and the engraver.

Jean-Michel Moreau, called le Jeune (1741-1814), was the great chronicler of the manners and the dress of Parisian society in the time of Louis XVI. This impression was published in London in 1910 in French Line Engravings of the Late XVIII Century, by H. W. Lawrence and B. L. Dighton.

Medium: Heliogravure on laid paper, after the original 18th-century engraving
Artist / after: Jean-Michel Moreau, "le Jeune" (1741-1814)
Engraver of the original copper: J. B. Patas
Date of this impression: 1910
Source: French Line Engravings of the Late XVIII Century, London, 1910
Dimensions: 10.0 x 12.6 in (25.3 x 32 cm)
Condition: Very good condition; clean paper with wide margins, with a small oxidation spot at the upper left corner, well away from the image. See less