Louis Boitard Hand Coloured Copper Engraving Taste A-La-Mode 1745 Reverse Glass Painting London 23/03/1956 Lot 69

London 23/03/1956 Lot 69

Study of a pensive young woman in a landscape

2 cms sheet

and thus expresses a great sense of place

He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1949

Louis Boitard Hand Coloured Copper Engraving Taste A-La-Mode 1745 Reverse Glass Painting London 23/03/1956 Lot 69Louis Pierre Boitard. Taste A La Mode, 1745. Hand coloured copper engraving by F Patton Published September 12th. 1745 Price 6d. Presented in an 18th. Century carved ebonised fruitwood frame. Provenance: with Justin Skrebowski. His handwriting to reverse. Some slight foxing to no real detriment. 33 by 24 cms plate. 42. 5 by 33 cms overall framed Boitard was a draughtsman and engraver; son of Franois Boitard (1667 1719), born in France; based in London