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Allegory Presented to M and Mme Cuisy on Their Wedding Anniversary, July 30, 176

Gilles Demarteau

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Allegory Presented to M and Mme Cuisy on Their Wedding Anniversary, July 30, 176
1722-1776
Gilles Demarteau
crayon manner engraving on off-white laid paper
17 13/16 x 12 5/8 in. (45.24 x 32.07 cm);18 x 22 in. (45.72 x 55.88 cm)
The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1969/2.71

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The original chalk drawing by François Boucher, an allegory dedicated to the immortality of love, was engraved by Demarteau and presented on the occasion of the Cuisy’s anniversary. Boucher’s drawing shows two conjoined hearts on the Altar of Love crowned with a laurel wreath. Putti, having disarmed Time (who sits at the lower right with his scythe at his side) hold aloft the hourglass that refers to mortality. A charming and playful reference to the power of love, this engraving captures the Boucher red chalk drawing with great fidelity.
Exhibition label copy from "Eighteenth Century French Prints and Drawings," February 1 - May 4, 2003 by Curator Carole McNamara

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