La Raison
La Raison is a beautiful hand-watercolored lithograph on wire rod paper, realized by the French genre painter Antoine Carré , as the inscriptions on plate report below the oval engraving, " Dessiné par Desrais / Gravé par Carré ."
This engraving was made after an original painting by the French artist Claude-Louis Desrais , published by Paul André Basset, as the inscription on plate below the central title reports: " A Paris, chez Basset. M.d d'Estampes, rue Jacques, au coin de celle des Mathurins ."
In very good conditions, except for some imperceptible stains spread on the margins.
Including a white cardboard passepartout (52.5 x 37 cm).
La Raison is a beautiful hand-watercolored lithograph on wire rod paper, realized by the French genre painter Antoine Carré , as the inscriptions on plate report below the oval engraving, " Dessiné par Desrais / Gravé par Carré ."
This engraving was made after an original painting by the French artist Claude-Louis Desrais , published by Paul André Basset, as the inscription on plate below the central title reports: " A Paris, chez Basset. M.d d'Estampes, rue Jacques, au coin de celle des Mathurins ."
This original print depicting an allegorical subject, full of symbols, shows the personification of Reason , represented as a woman with helmet and armor petting a roaring lion and holding a bundle in which a snake and a small French flag are wrapped.
In very good conditions, except for some imperceptible stains spread on the margins.
Including a white cardboard passepartout (52.5 x 37 cm).
Claude-Louis Desrais (Paris, 1746 - 1816) was a French painter and illustrator, pupil of Francesco Casanova.
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