L'Hercule mesquin - from Les Dames Galantes

L'Hercule mesquin  – From Les Dames Galantes is an original b/w etching on laid ivory-colored paper, by É mile Boilvin . Excellent condition, with fresh impressions, this is a rare specimen before letter (I.F.F. 56). On the lower margin "d.ap. Ed. Beaumont / E. Boilvin".

From the volume  “ Les sept Discours touchant les Dames galantes du Sieur de Brant ôme ”, text by Pierre Bourdeilles de Brantôme, published by Jouaust, Paris, 1882, this is one of ten original b/w etchings d’après the Edouard Beaumont edition: original   drawings by Edouard de Beaumont, engraved by Boilvin. Limited edition, 220 copies.

The Boilvin’s illustrated plates for this volume are the following:

Frontispiece – portrait de Brantome,

La Dame Fouetté- Discours 1

Les Oiseux de Barbarie,

Le Gant dans le Lit

La Jarretière,

Les Cavaliers espagnols

L’Audacieux et la Timide

Le Cardinal de Lorraine

L ‘Hercule mesquin

Le Devant de la Dame.

Émile Boilvin (Metz 1845 - Paris, 1899)

Émile Boilvin is a 19th century French painter and printmaker, a pupil of Isidore Pils and Pierre Edmond Alexandre Hédouin. He exhibited at the Salon of Painting and Sculpture , in the "French Engravers" section, from 1865. He won the " Grand Prix " at the Universal Exhibition of 1889.