Antoine CARRÉE ou CARRÉ
Actif à Paris dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle
Jacques François Chéreau
1780
Aquatint, after a drawing by Benoît Louis Prévost
193 × 154 mm, trimmed within the platemark
Fine impression, of the only state, annotated on the reverse with pen and brown ink Fr. Chereau, rubbed spot above of the left medallion, a few frictions on the subject, remains of glue on the reverse
Provenance: R. de Perthuis (Lugt 4237)
Reference: IFF 1
Jacques-François Chéreau was a print publisher and merchant. From the 1770s, and until 1787, the year he sold his stock, he was, with Basan, the most important representative of both these activities in Paris. Carrée’s engraved portrait depicts him with, on the background wall, portraits of the members of his family (see Dictionnaire des Editeurs d’Estampes à Paris sous l’Ancien Régime, Paris, 1987, p. 83).