Gilles Antoine DEMARTEAU
(1750 – Paris – 1806)
 
Grande Pastorale No.601 – 1780
after Jean-Baptiste Hüet.
 
Wash-manner, printed in red, blue, and black inks. Lettered: ‘J.B.Huet pinx./A Paris chez Demarteau Graveur Cloître St. Benoît/No.601/Demarteau sculp.’
Size of sheet: 30.9 x 39.8 cm.
 
Leymarie, 1896, No.601; IFF 6:23.
 
Brilliant impression with fresh palette and nicely blended tones on ivory laid paper with good margins around the platemark; two tiny pinholes on the edges of the sheet and one small scratch in the image, otherwise in mint condition.