LOUIS-SIMON LEMPEREUR

1728 - Paris - 1807

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Sylvie guérit Philis de la piqûre d'une Abeille [Sylvie cures Philis of the sting of a bee] - 1779

Etching and engraving after François Boucher. Size of sheet: 43.6 x 46.5 cm. Lettered in the plate: 'Fr. Boucher pinx.', à droite : 'L. S. Lempereur Sculp./ Gravé d'après le Tableau original de Fr. Boucher, tiré du Cabinet / de son Altesse Sérénissime Monseigneur le Duc de Penthièvre. / A Paris chez Lempereur Graveur du Roi et de IL. Maj.tés Imp.les et R. les / Rue et Porte St. Jacques au-dessus du petit Marché.'

Fenaille, 1925, p.111, Dilke p.197; Goncourt 289; Jean-Richard 1368.

Superb impression on laid paper with thread margins around the platemark. A small area of thinning of paper on the back of the sheet, otherwise in excellent condition.

Comparative impressions: Musée du Louvre – Inv. 18846 LR; Hermitage Museum - Inv.ОГ-129444.

Louis-Simon Lempereur: Sylvie guérit Philis

One of the four engravings by Lempereur after overdoor pictures by Boucher executed in 1756, illustrating scenes from a play ‘Aminta’ written by Torquato Tasso in 1573. The pictures belonged to the Duc de Penthièvre from Madame de Pompadure. He agreed to lend them to the Manufacture des Gobelins in 1783. Two of these Gobelins tapestries hang today at the Welbeck Abbey in the collection of the Duke of Portland.

References: Jean Vittet, Les Gobelins au siècle de lumieres: Un âge d'or de la manufacture royale, 2014;

Maurice Fenaille, François Boucher, 1925;

Pierrette Jean-Richard, The engraved work of François Boucher in the Edmond de Rothschild Collection', Paris 1978.

Louis-Simon Lempereur: Sylvie guérit Philis

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