Antique Master Print-TEACHER-FROM A BIBLE TO CHILDREN-Martenasie-Greuze-1759

Description Medium: Engraving and etching on hand laid (verge) paper. Sheet size: 48 x 42.4 cm (18.9 x 16.69 inch). Image size: 45 x 40 cm. (17.72 x 15.75 inch). Condition: good, given age. Light creasing, foxing and soiling. Multiple damages and tears, backed. Sold waf. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE, FRENCH GENRE SCENE, ENLIGHTENMENT, MORAL PAINTING, FAMILY INTERIOR, DE LA LIVE DE JULLY, 18TH CENTURY PRINT | PCO-B9-19 BACKGROUND INFORMATION Paris, published by Louis Cars, Graveur du Roi, Rue Saint-Jacques, with royal privilege (A.P.D.R.). Louis Cars (1699-1771) was a French engraver, appointed Graveur du Roi, known for refined reproductive engravings after leading French painters of the 18th century. Reference: Dedicated to Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully; related to Greuze’s moral genre compositions widely engraved in late 18th-century France. Biography engraver: Pieter Franciscus Martenasie (1729-1789), son of Franciscus and Petronella van Neckens, was born in Antwerp in Dec. 1729, went to Paris, where he had J.P. de Bas as his teacher in the treatment of the engraving iron. Returning to Antwerp, he settled there, became professor director of the Academy on February 6, 1762, and ordinary engraver to Prince Charles of Lorraine, governor-general of the Austrian Netherlands, on September 10, 1764. On the 17th of March, 1770, he resigned his position at the Academy, and on the 3rd of October, 1789, he passed away. Among his best engravings was the Sabyn Rape of Virgins after Rubbens and the Father of the House after Greuze. His portrait, painted life-size by Andreas Cornelis Lens, is in the museum in Antwerp. Biography artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725?1805) was a French painter and draughtsman, celebrated for sentimental genre scenes emphasizing morality, family values, and emotional expression during the Enlightenment.