Jean Baptiste TILLARD
(1740 – Paris – 1813)
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Les bergers russes – 1768
after Jean Baptiste Le Prince.
 
Engraving on laid paper. Lettered: ‘J. B. Le Prince Pinx. / J. B. Tilliard Stup. /Dédié à Monseigneur le Duc de La Rochefoucauld Pair de France.’ Watermark : Auvergne 1742 ( ?).
Size of sheet: 53.5 x 38.8 cm.
 
Beraldi & Portalis V.3, pt.2, p.596.
 
Comparative impressions : Biblioteque Nationale de France – inv.ref. DC-12-FOL. 
 
Impression trimmed on or 2 mm outside the platemark. Some traces of skinning of the paper in the lower part of the print, otherwise in very good condition.
 
Engraved after the painting by Le Prince ‘Pastorale russe’ exhibited at the Salon in 1765, now in the Musée Cognacq-Jay in Paris (inv. J80).