Here is a charming image of uit petites OieceDix huit petites Oieces de Paysages(19 prints) - [W/19 etchings] - Set - 615 x 440mm - 23•15/16 x 17•3/16in - Reiss & Sohn (Alte und Neue Kunst, #134) - 10/30/2009 - #261 - [EU200] s de Paysages(19 prints).

Sébastien Le Clerc " Paysans Avec un Village au fond " Etching , Published from " Dix Huit petite Pieces Passages" , Printed on fine laid paper measuring 2.75 by 3.75 inches and in good condition with light surface dirt. This is plate signed.
Sébastien Le Clerc (26 September 1637 — 25 October 1714) was an etcher and engraver from Lorraine, who worked in Paris specializing in subtle reproductive engravings of paintings. He was made graveur du Roi and attached to the Cabinet du Roi.

Of his reproductive engravings the connoisseur and chronicler of artistic life Pierre-Jean Mariette wrote in his Abecedario "If there has ever been an engraver who rendered himself celebrated in his profession, and who extended his capabilities beyond ordinary bounds, that is, without fear of contradiction, Sébastien Le Clerc".




Sébastien Le Clerc was born in Metz, the son of Laurent Le clerc, a goldsmith and merchant of Metz, who taught his precocious son the rudiments of his art. He went to Paris in 1665, pursuing interests in geometry, physics, military architecture and perspective and supporting himself by providing illustrations for booksellers, but was counselled by the King's painter Charles Le Brun to devote himself entirely to engraving. He was accepted into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1672 and taught perspective at the Academy school. He was appointed engraver to Louis XIV and was attached to the Gobelins. He was granted the honorific cavaliere Romano by the Pope in 1706. He died at Paris.




His richly illustrated treatise on architecture (Paris, 1714) was translated into English by Ephraim Chambers as A treatise of architecture with remarks and observations. In a number of editions it served until the mid-eighteenth century as the only systematized and encyclopedic introduction to the decorative part of architecture, ornaments and enriched mouldings, that was available in English.




Two early sources on his career are the pious Éloge by abbé Vallemant (Paris, 1715) full of sentimental fabrications, and the Catalogue de l'Oeuvre de Le Clerc by Charles-Antoine Jombert (Paris, 1774). Edward Meaume published a catalogue raisonnée, Sébastien Le Clerc et son oeuvre, Paris, 1877. An exhibition of his work was mounted by the Bibliothèque municipale de Metz : 27 May-26 July 1980.

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