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Original Antique Engraved Etching, 4to, dated 1769 in the plate, a single folio leaf measuring 11 x 17 inches, with the plate mark at 16 x 9.5 cm. Text in French. **CONDITION: Very Good. Foxing as seen to margins, and faintly affecting plate in several places. **Please note that the scrapbook marbled paper here is not attached and not included; only used display what the work might look like if matted and framed. Last two photos are provided for information only. **Artist ANTOINE DE MARCENAY DE GHUY (1724-1811) has been described as an amateur painter, engraver and etcher, from an aristocratic family of the Arnay-le-Duc, a commune in the Côte-d'Or region of eastern France. He often worked in the style of Dutch masters Rembrandt, and his student Gerard Dou, experimenting to reproduce the dramatic effect of shadowing or chiaroscuro. Here, however, his inspiration is attributed to work of Lucas Cranach the Elder, the German Renaissance artist. (British Museum). The SUBJECT, "The Maid" of Orlean" refers to Jean d'Arc, the 15th century mystic and military leader later canonized as Patron Saint of France for her part in the French victory at the Siege of Orléans in 1429, resulting in the defeat of the English and Burgundian invaders, thereby enabling the end of the Hundred Years War and elevation of the French King Charles VII. "La Pucelle d'Orleans" was also a saucy epic poem by Voltaire satirizing her life and achievements first produced from the early to mid 18th century. Biographer Louis Morand identifies this as one of the artist's most popular works. Refs: C. LeBlanc, "Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes..."(Paris: P. Jannet, 1854) p. 599, No. 5. L. Morand, "Antoine de Marcenay de Ghuy, peintre et graveur, 1724-1811. Catalogue de son oeuvre..." (Paris, 1901). Fine Art Museum San Francisco A102751. We will mail any prints well protected in a flat box. And please contact us if interested in multiple prints in order to save on postage. (AMJ)
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