Antique Master Print-LE-PREMIER-NAVIGATEUR-ET-MELIDE-Mariage-Charpentier-c.1810

Description Medium: Stipple engraving, plate coloured (a la poupee) on wove (vellin) paper. Sheet size: 57 x 44 cm (22.44 x 17.32 inch). Image size: 54 x 41 cm. (21.26 x 16.14 inch). Condition: good, given age. Light foxinng and soiling, mostly in margins. A few small wormholes at the man’s legs. Paper loss in top left corner margin. Paper separition at the right plate edge. Some thin paper spots in margin and paper edges with some chipping and small tears. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. CONSTANCE MARIE CHARPENTIER, CLAUDE-LOUIS MARIAGE, FIRST NAVIGATOR, M?LIDE, ALLEGORY, STIPPLE ENGRAVING, FRENCH DECORATIVE PRINT, 18TH?19TH CENTURY | PCO-B9-02 BACKGROUND INFORMATION Published in Paris, ca. 1795?1810. Biography engraver: Louis-Francois Mariage was French stipple engraver active in Paris at start of the 19th.c. Biography artist: Constance Marie Blondel Charpentier (1767?1849), French painter, pupil of Jacques-Louis David. Specialized in allegorical, mythological, and sentimental scenes, as well as portraits. She exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon, and many of her works were engraved in stipple for wide circulation.