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Eight plates from Les Jeux Plaisirs de L'enfance
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First edition. Eight Etchings from the series 'Les Jeux et Plaisirs de l'Enfance', Claudine Bouzonnet Stella after Jacques Stella. Engraved area is 12cm x 14cm. The sheets are 17.5cm x 23cm. The edition is difficult to identify, as we have only the engravings (not title page) and they are rare items. However, we have identified these as identical to those in the Victoria and Albert Museum holdings. They have attributed them to the 1657 first edition. The prints are the same as others we have found, with the difference that in the bottom right corner, some issues are numbered 1-n. Others (including ours) are numbered a.2, a.3 etc. Condition is good, but a little marked and darkened. Slight foxing and handling. The prints we hold are: Le Sabot (a.2); L'escarpolete (a.3); Le Bain (a.7) with light crease to corner; Le Guerre (b.1). light stain to top half; Le Petits Canons (b.2) foxing spots and a 2cm closed tear to the bottom edge (not affecting engraved area); Le Culebute (b.4); Le Palet (b.6) moderate markingLe Court Baston (c.4). We can find no copies of these original printings available to purchase at the time of cataloguing. Claudine Bouzonnet Stella succeeded her late uncle, Jacques Stella, as the head of her family's print workshop at the Louvre royal palace in 1657. That year, she engraved and published Stella's designs for fifty scenes of putti playing games, including the one seen here. This book circulated throughout Europe, eventually serving as a visual source for the eighteenth-century decorative arts. .
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