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Subjects
Social life and customs, Early works to 1800, Economic conditions, Street vendors, Portraits, Peddlers, Pictorial worksPeople
Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762)Places
FranceTimes
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Etudes prises dans le bas peuple, ou, Les cris de Paris: premiere suitte ... - cinquieme suitte
1736, Chez Fessard, rue St. Denis, au grand St. Louis, chez un Miroitier près le Sep[ulcre]
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Edition Notes
Five suites of twelve plates each, illustrating the costumes and habits of the working-class people of Paris. Each print portrays a single tradesperson or street vendor, each with descriptive caption. By the eminent sculptor for Louis XV of France and Clement XII in Rome.
Each plate signed: Bouchardon inv[enit]; and variously: C.S., C. sculp[sit], A Paris chés Joullain, A Paris chez Joullain. Plate 1 in Suitte 3 is signed: gravé a l'eau forte par C. et retouché par Et. Fessard. Plate 1 in Suitte 4 and plate 1 in Suitte 5 signed: gravé a l'eau forte par C. [C.S.] et terminé au burin par Et. Fessard.
"Title to each suite by A.C. Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus, after Bouchardon, retouched by Fessard"--Christie's Sale 7915, The Arcana Collection Part II: Important Rare Books and Manuscripts, 27 October 2010, London.
Plate 1 in Suitte 4 has etched imprint: A Paris chez Fessard Cloître St. Germain de l'Auxerois en entrant par la rue de l'Arbre secla premiere Maison neuve. Plate 1 in Suitte 5 has etched imprint: A Paris chés Joullain quais de la Megisserie a la Ville de Rome.
LC copy in late 19th-century half brown morocco with French-curl patterned marbled paper; gilt decoration, upper edge gilt. Endpapers have bouquet marbled pattern. Plate 12 in Suitte 1 is cut out and mounted on a blank leaf.
Cicognara, L. Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità, 1601 (series 1-3)
Cohen-De Ricci, 179
Colas, R. Costume, 401
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