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Acquaforte e bulino, 1775. Da Eberts e Freudeberg Primo stato di tre, ante litteram. L’incisione all’acquaforte fu eseguita da Antoine-Jean Duclos, mentre Francois-Robert Ingouf completò la lastra con alcuneritocchi a bulino. Lo stato finale fu pubblicato in Monument du Costume Physique et Moral de la fin du Dix-huitième siècle. Antoine-Jean Duclos, nato nel 1742 a Parigi dove morì nel 1795, fu un disegnatore e incisore francese. Nato a Parigi, Duclos fu allievo di Augustin de Saint-Aubin, di cui riprodusse i disegni. In seguito divenne uno dei più dotati vignettisti della sua generazione, eseguendo numerose illustrazioni di piccolo formato che erano molto di moda nella seconda metà del XVIII secolo. Era anche dotato nella preparazione della calcografia, lavorando per altri incisori, disegnatori e pittori come François Boucher, Charles-Nicolas Cochin, Jean-Michel Moreau, Charles Eisen, Hubert François Gravelot, Charles Monnet e Clément-Pierre Marillier. Bibliografia Lawrence & Dighton, French Line Engraving of the late XVIII Century (217.I/III). Etching and engraving, 1775. After Eberts and Freudeberg First state of three, ante litteram. The etched state was executed by Antoine-Jean ' Duclos, and Francois-Robert Ingouf completed the plate with some engraving. The final state was published in Monument du Costume Physique et Moral de la fin du Dix-huitième siècle. The scene depicts a young man in masquerade dress, kneeling to kiss the hand of a young woman, who sits in an alcove behind a curtain on the left, removing her mask, hidden by a companion who stands before the man and acts as intermediary; table set with food to right, dancers in the background to left. Antoine-Jean Duclos, born in 1742 in Paris where he died in 1795, was a French draftsman and engraver. Born in Paris, Duclos was a student of Augustin de Saint-Aubin, whose drawings he reproduced. He later became one of the most gifted vignettists of his generation, executing numerous small-format illustrations that were very much in vogue in the second half of the eighteenth century. He was also gifted in copperplate preparation, working for other engravers, draftsmen, and painters such as François Boucher, Charles-Nicolas Cochin, Jean-Michel Moreau, Charles Eisen, Hubert François Gravelot, Charles Monnet, and Clément-Pierre Marillier. ' References: Lawrence & Dighton, French Line Engraving of the late XVIII Century (217.I/III). Cfr.