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A GRISAILLE-ENAMELED ‘EUROPEAN-SUBJECT’ PLATE Known as ‘Le Suite de Larmessin’ after the principal engraver, these
AFTER LANCRET prints were initially sold as a print collection, and then published in
Qianlong period, circa 1750 book form along with Fontaine’s text. Six of the prints from the Suite
Carefully enameled in shades of black and grey simulating printer’s ink are reproduced on Chinese export porcelain, including this one.
with a careful copy of a European engraving depicting two attractive Most are reversed, suggesting that the prints taken to China were
ladies and their umbrella bearer greeting a swaying young man beside re-engraved copies of the Larmessin prints. It was reproduced over a
a bearded monk, within iron-red and gilt spearhead and baroque scroll period of about twenty years, and some later pieces are quite crudely
bands around the border. drawn. It is here executed in high quality suggesting these are from an
9in (23cm) diam early order.
$800 - 1,200 For an example in famille rose enamels now in the Metropolitan
Museum, New York, see Cohen & Cohen, Baroque & Roll, Antwerp,
乾隆時期 約1750年 墨彩開光仿蘭克雷繪《歐洲人物故事》盤 2015, p. 90-91, no. 58
Published: References: Hervouët & Bruneau, 1986, nos. 9.13-15, p. 199; Arapova
Cohen & Cohen, Tyger Tyger!, Antwerp, 2016, pp. 122-123, no. 54 2003, a plate in purple and grisaille; Shimizu & Chabanne, 2003, no.
(one of two) 163, p. 211, a grisaille plate; Pinto de Matos, 2011, Vol. 2, no. 329, p.
244, a grisaille plate; and Brawer, 1992, cat. 83, p. 110, a plate.
出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Tyger Tyger!》，安特衛普，2016年，
頁122-123，圖版編號54(二之一)

The print on which this subject is based is entitled ‘Les Oies de Frère
Philippe’, (fig.1) engraved by Nicolas de Larmessin IV after a painting
by Nicolas Lancret that now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum,
New York. The story comes from Jean de la Fontaine’s ‘Contes et
Nouvelles’, itself inspired by one included in Boccacio’s Decameron.
An innocent young man spies some beautiful girls and asks ‘Brother
Phillip’ what they are. To prevent the youth succumbing to temptation,
the monk replies that they are only geese. Around 1730, a collection of
engraved illustrations for La Fontaine’s Contes were published. Using,
as their original source, paintings by a number of artists including
Boucher, Le Mesle, Vleughels, Pater, Eisen, Lorrain and Lancret.
(fig.1)

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