Berger endormi au pied d'un arbre... - after Boucher

 

Gilles Demarteau

  1722 - 1776 (biography)

c. 1750  

Softground crayon-manner etching in sanguine ink 

5 3/16 x 7 11/16" platemark 

inscribed within the plate, lower right 

unstated 

inscribed into plate, left: "F. Boucher in. del. / A Paris chés Demarteau Gravuer du / Roi rue de la Pelterie a la Cloche" Inscribed into plate, right: "Demarteau Lne. sculp / N.o 200" 

Demarteau 200 

heavy antique-white laid 

published 

artist at chez Demarteau Graveur du Roi rue de la Pelterie a la Cloche. 

20564 

$300.00 

A Demarteau etching of the original Boucher drawing, printed in sepia ink using softground in the "crayon manner" to resemble a drawing. The title in French reads: "Berger endormi au pied d'un arbre, la tete dans la main droite, les jambes repliees; à droite, deux moutons", translating to: "Shepherd asleep at the foot of a tree, head in right hand, legs folded; on the right, two sheep."

This impression has his early address at "rue de Pelterie a la Cloche". Demarteau was a prodigious etcher, executing over 730 images, mostly done after drawings by Boucher and Huet. Demarteau was only 54 when he died.