Benoit Louis Prevost - Gravure en Pierre Fines or Fine Stone Engraving

Gravure en Pierre Fines (Fine Stone Engraving)

Benoit Louis Prevost's original engraving, Gravure en Pierre Fines (Fine Stone Engraving) is based upon a design created by Boucher for Diderot's Encyclopedie. This impression is printed upon 18th century laid paper and with full margins as published in the first edition of the Encyclopedie around 1760. Gravure en Pierre Fines is a fine, original example of the engraved art created by the French artist, Benoit Louis Prevost.

Original Engraving by the French artist, Benoit Louis Prevost designed by Boucher.

Gravure en Pierre Fines (Fine Stone Engraving)

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Diderot's Encyclopedie
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01-		Dessein, Figures Drapees (Design, Draped Figures) by Defehrt designed by Bouchardon and de la Hire for Diderot's Encyclopedie.	Original Engraving	c. 1760	Published in the first edition of the Encyclopedie
02.-		Epinglier, Plate II (Pin Making) by Defehrt designed by Goussier for Diderot's Encyclopedie.	Original Engraving	1762	Published in the first edition of the Encyclopedie	Sold
03-		Epinglier, Plate III (Pin Making) by Benoit Louis Prevost designed by Goussier for Diderot's Encyclopedie.	Original Engraving	1762	Published in the first edition of the Encyclopedie	Sold
04.-		Gravure en Pierre Fines (Fine Stone Engraving) by Benoit Louis Prevost designed by Boucher for Diderot's Encyclopedie.	Original Engraving	c. 1760	Published in the first edition of the Encyclopedie

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Title:	Gravure en Pierre Fines (Fine Stone Engraving)
Engraver:	Prevost, Benoit Louis (Paris, 1735 -1804)
Designer:	Boucher
Date:	c. 1760
Medium:	Original Engraving
Note:	Benoit Louis Prevost: An accomplished eighteenth century engraver, Benoit Louis Prevost studied fine art techniques under Jean Ouvrier, in Paris. Equally skilled in technical and artistic renderings, Prevost worked under such great painters and designers as Cochin and Moreau. He was also commissioned to engrave the portraits of such contemporaries as Voltaire, King Louis XV, Marie Antoinette, Charles Nicolas Cochin and the Marquis de Marigny.
	Prevost was one of the chief engravers commissioned for the many illustrative plates comprising Diderot's Encyclopedie. Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was a liberal philosopher and social critic. His writings such as, Pensees Philosophiques and Lettre sur les Aveugles, drew the wrath of both church and state. He was in fact imprisoned for a period of one year in 1749.
	The Encyclopedie was published in fourteen large volumes between 1751 and 1765. Containing many articles with large, illustrative engravings, it was the first work to systematically describe and depict the many processes and accomplishments of late eighteenth century life. This original engraving entitled, Gravure en Pierre Fines (Fine Stone Engraving) hails from this most important publication. Below is a detail of the upper portion of Benoit Louis Prevost's original engraving.

Source:	Diderot's Encyclopedie
Size:	14 X 9 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Buy Now	Price: $265.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon 18th century laid paper and with full margins as published in the first edition of the Encyclopedie around 1760. Bearing all the fine lines and tones of a very early impression and in excellent condition throughout. Gravure en Pierre Fines (Fine Stone Engraving) represents a prime original example of the famous art from Diderot's Encyclopedie.
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