Ruiters en een koets met zes paarden in een landschap
Jean Moyreau
1752
Medium
etching
Dimensions
470; 365
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 240
Art Historical Context
Jean Moyreau's *Ruiters en eenets met zes paarden in een landschap* (Riders and a Coach with Six Horses in a Landscape), in 1752, captures the grandeur of 18th-centuryquestrian life. This etching depicts riders accompanying an elaborate six-horse coach winding through a picturesque landscape, evoking theulence of the Rococo era in France. Moyreau, a skilled French engraver and member of the Académie Royale, specialized in reproductive prints that brought the dynamic compositions of contemporary painters to a wider audience through the democratic medium of printmaking. Etching, the artwork's m...