FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (after Watteau) Paysage avec une passerelle.
Etching, 1726-28. 243x324 mm; 9 5/8x12 3/4 inches, narrow to small margins. From L'Oeuvre d'Antoine Watteau . . . Figures et Differents Caractères. A very good impression of this scarce etching.
According to Carlson, "One of the most lavish tributes paid to Watteau's (1684-1721) memory was the publication of Jean de Jullienne's L'Oeuvre d'Antoine Watteau, which was printed in Paris in four volumes between 1726 and 1735 . . . Because some etchings are unsigned, the precise extent of Boucher's collaboration is variously estimated at between 106 and 119 plates, all published between 1726 and 1728 in the two volumes of the recueil given over to prints after Watteau's drawings, which are subtitled Figures et Differents Caractères, (Carlson/Ittmann, Regency to Empire, French Printmaking 1715-1814, Minneapolis, 1984, page 74). This was Boucher's (1703-1770) first significant commission as a young artist and a fitting tribute to his mentor. Baudicour 135.
