"Le mauvais riche".

RIOLLET, Marie-Catherine. TENIERS, David II (after)

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Lot description

Paris, Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, ca. 1775-1788

Engraving, 43,2 x 56,9 cm, laid paper, title, signature and address in lower margin: " LE MAUVAUS RICHE / Gravé d'après le Tableau original de David Teniers par M(ademois)elle C. Riollet. / AParis chez Beauvarlet Graveur du Roi, Rue de Tournon pres le Luxembourg." (sm. tear repaired outside platemark).

Hinged at upper edges, under passe-partout. Good impression with wide margins. Good condition.

Refined engraving by the female printmaker Marie-Catherine Riollet (1755-1788), also called Beauvarlet after her husband Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (1731-1797). The parable of the rich man and poor Lazarus after a painting by David Teniers II (1610-1690).