Detail.
P. L. De Bucourt
Le Menuet de la Mariée
18th. cent. aquatint printed in colours after the original De Bucourt painting, printed by Chapias, Paris 1786 Dédié à Monsieur Le Comte De Cossé French lines and wash mat, period glazing, gilt-wood and gesso frame.
14 x 9 1/8" (35.5 x 23.2 cm.) 21 7/8 x 17"
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Le Meuet de la Marieé / The Minuet of the Bride depicts entertainment, intimacies, merrymaking and intrigue at a French 18th. cent country wedding two years before the terror of the revolution. Displayed in its original Louis XVI frame and mounts.
Le Comte De Cossé was Corporal of the Armies of the King, Colonel of the Vivarais regiment and first gentleman of the bedchamber of the King's brother.
Philibert Louis De Bucourt was a painter and engraver to King Louis XVI of France. Debucourt, was born in Paris in 1755, and became a pupil of Vien. He executed a few plates in mezzotint, such as the Heureuse famille, the Benediction de la mariée, and the Cruche cassée, after his own designs. Most of his work was, however, in aquatint He became the leading maker of multi-plate colour prints, combining washes of aquatint with line-engraving. He used a number of different techniques, but most involved three colour plates, and a fourth key plate, outlining the design in black.