One of the best ways to find a print or topic is to use the "Search" function in the upper right hand corner.
Cart 0
One of the best ways to find a print or topic is to use the "Search" function in the upper right hand corner.
Cart 0
Le Verrou (the bolt) Copper etching by Maurice Blot (1753 - 1818) after the painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806). Paris, 1784 A young man prevents the escape of his mistress by pushing the door bolt shut.

Le Verrou (The Bolt)

$248.00 $620.00
Shipping calculated at checkout.

Le Verrou (the bolt)

Copper etching by Maurice Blot (1753 - 1818) after the painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806). Paris, 1784

Traces of age and use along margin edges. Image excellent!

35.6 x 45 cm (14 x 17.7")

Wikipedia entry about the painting: 
"The Bolt (French: Le Verrou), also known as The Lock, is a gallant scene painted by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in 1777. It is one of the most famous paintings by the painter. The common interpretation suggests that the scene depicts two lovers entwined in a bedroom, the man locking the door. The painting is preserved in the Louvre Museum, in the section of the Department of Paintings devoted to eighteenth-century French painting on the second floor of the Sully wing. It stands together with some of the most famous pictorial masterpieces of the same period, in a chronologically organized path. This painting, a true symbol of the libertine spirit of the 18th century, reflects the state of mind adopted by the painters of the era, notably that of François Boucher, one of Fragonard's teachers and a great representative of rococo painting."

 

Share this Product

More from this collection

Ruta - Rauten Here we get to know him an author of simply wonderful descriptions of plants and flowers used in medicine. His specialty was to set the flowers oversize into a landscape, adorning the print with flying ribbon in which the name of the plant or flower is engraved. The book in which these little gems were published was called "Die fruchtbringende Gesellschaft"

Botanical Prints by Matthaeus Merian: Ruta - Rauten

$135.00 $67.00

On the left is part of the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. In the upper right is Japan. In the lower right is Molucca, part of New Guinea, and Timor. Near the lower center is Sri Lanka. This is the second map of Asia by Sebastian Muenster (1488 - 1552). It is a woodcut map published in 1588. Older hand coloring. Nicely colored woodcut map of Asia. Crease in right part of map from Japan to Molucca.

Maps, Asia, Japan, Molucca, New Guinea, Timor, Sri Lanka, Muenster

$620.00 $434.00

Portugal ,Azores, Terceira, Grupo central Azores. - "Terceira Insula" Hand-colored copper etching. Published in the pocket atlas by Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) Antwerp, 1587 The island chart decorated with two sail ships and two sea monsters. Verso text for "Spain" in Latin Language. Island print a bit awrily placed on paper.

Maps, Portugal, Azores, Terceira, Grupo central

$80.00

Spain, Espagña, "Hispaniae Veteris Descriptio. Ex. conatibus Geographicis Abrah. Ortely." Copper engraving from the atlas:"Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" by Abraham Ortelius, dated 1586. Hand coloring.

Maps, Spain, Espagña, Cadiz, Ortelius

$720.00