Lot 5: Louis Marin Bonnet (1736-1793)

L'Amour prie Vénus de lui rendre ses Armes, after F. Boucher (Hérold pp. 64-5, no. 17 I)
chalk-manner etching with engraving printed in colours, 1768, on blue laid paper, a fine proof impression before letters, Hérold's first state (of five), trimmmed inside the platemark, but retaining a wide margin outside the borderline, pinholes in the upper sheet corners, a small pale discoloured spot and a little crease outside the borderline at left, generally in very good condition
S. 299 x 395 mm.

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