PICART, Bernard.
Diverses modes dessinées d'après nature.
Amsterdam, Bernard Picart, 1728. Oblong 4to (21 x 27.5 cm). Series of 12 engraved prints: 11 costume prints plus a title-page (title in a stunning and delicate cartouche, plate size: 12.5 x 7 cm) on 6 oblong 4to leaves (which could make 12 8vo leaves). 6 of the plates are signed by the engraver Gaspard Duchange, all after the designs of Bernard Picart. Unbound.
€ 3,500
Series of 12 costume prints (including the title-page) of Dutch and Frisian farmers and fishermen, printed on 6 leaves, as originally published and wholly untrimmed. The title was probably deliberately vague, so that it could be used for various combinations of costume prints. The present series also forms the Dutch part of a larger series of 30 costume prints of peasants from all over Europe.
Bernard Picart (1673-1733), a celebrated French artist-engraver, studied with his father and worked in Paris together with François Chéreau, whose widow sold the present print series there in the larger series (numbered 1-30 and without Dutch captions). He came to Holland in 1710, living and working in Amsterdam from 1711 to his death in 1733.
Very crisp impressions. Cf. Cohen-De Ricci, col. 136 (30 prints, n.d.); Colas 2353 (30 prints, n.d.); Lipperheide Cl 3 (30 prints, n.d.); Rahir, p. 583 (32 prints, 1728).
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