Boudt Cornelius (2 results)

Two attractive devotional cards on the theme of love. Both invoke the imagery of the hunt. One reads: 'L'amour en forme de veneris / chasse les renards de mon coeur' [Love in the form of hunters chases the foxes from my heart]; the other: 'Il advient bien ou plus fin / de chasser pour son voisin' [it would be better or finer to hunt for one's neighbour]. Each has its central scene within a polygonal cartouche and is surrounded by elaborate floral borders. De Boudt and Bouché were both active as printmakers in late seventeenth-century Antwerp, the former being the pupil of the latter. De Boudt, in particular, produced many thousands of such small engravings and they continued to be printed well into the following century. Two engraved prints on paper (92 × 125 mm), hand-coloured (gouache with gold borders). Slightly thumbed, old manuscript ?captions on verso, obliterated at an early date.

S.l. (Antwerpen for the 18th c. ), France ( for the 19th c.). The prints are kept in a 19th c. full leather binding, 16 x 24,5 cm, Front cover with embossed decoration and the large gilt words '' Album Religieux''. With 2 large brass clasps. It contains: 47 small prints ((9 x 7 cm) signed in the engraving, and coloured, printed on paper. 8 ditto, but unsigned. 19 ditto, signed but not coloured. 2 ditto, not signed not coloured. Further it contains 17 19th century prints in chromo-lithography, some with folding images added, some with lace like borders. Some of the 18th c. prints are dustsoiled or thumbed. The images are ligthtly mounted in the reserved spaces of the album leaves. Loosely inserted are anothe 2 prints (one signed, coloured, printed on vellum).