Un Bon Tiens Vaut Mieux Que Deux tu Auras

by AUGRAND, Parfait after Jean Baptiste MALLET

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Book description: Paris: circa 1810. Colour-printed stipple. Printed on wove paper. In excellent condition with the exception of some slight paper discolouration. Water stain lower left corner. Trimmed within plate mark on the side and top margins. Image size: 10 3/8 x 13 1/8 inches. 13 3/4 x 15 11/16 inches. A glowing impression of this charming stipple engraving, which is printed in the "a la poupée" method. Genre painting came back into favour when the Academy admitted Watteau's "The Pilgrimage to Cythera" to its ranks in 1717. From that point on, a fashion for decorative genre subjects swept the country, influencing an entire generation of French artists. This craze did not subside until after the onset of the Revolution when, the frivolous tastes of the aristocratic elite were dispelled and a more sober era descended upon French art. This spectacular print by Augrand after Mallet exemplifies the vogue for decorative subject prints that swept through France at the close of the eighteenth century. This impression is a lovely example of early colour printing, which was developed as a means of reproducing the effects of painting in oils. This spectacular print exemplifies the single-plate colour-printing technique developed in England, but quickly adopted by French engravers. The effect is achieved by inking a single plate with several different colours by using a rag stump, a process known as a la poupée. As this lovely print demonstrates, the outcome achieved by this laborious method of inking has a wonderful painterly effect and creates a delicacy of image, which is charming to behold.

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