Lot 102: Jeune fille à la rose (Leymarie 563; Ittmann & Carlson 74)

Gilles-Antoine Demarteau le Jeune (1750-1802) after François Boucher (1703-1770) Jeune fille à la rose (Leymarie 563; Ittmann & Carlson 74) etching in the crayon-manner printed from three plates in black, red and greenish-blue, 1777, on stiff laid paper, without watermark, a very good, bright impression of this rare print, with the engraved address and number, retaining all five borderline, trimmed just outside the outer borderlines, in very good condition S. 310 x 224 mm.

. 310 x 224 mm.

Madame de V...; her sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 11-12 June 1928, lot 61 (54,000 F). A European collector; Christie's, London, 1 December 1992, lot 265 (£5,280). With C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf; acquired at the above sale. Private German collection; acquired from the above in 1993; then by descent to the present owner.

To our knowledge, this is beautifully preserved impression is the only one to have been offered at auction within the last thirty years. It was last sold in these rooms in 1992.