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| Anne-Claude de Caylus and Nicolas Le Sueur after Gianfrancesco Penni The Egyptians Submerged in the Red Sea ca. 1710-29 etching and chiaroscuro woodcut Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Anne Claude de Caylus and Nicolas Le Sueur after Giulio Romano Fishermen hauling in their nets ca. 1710-29 etching and chiaroscuro woodcut Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, Comte de Caylus (1692-1765 – printmaker, author/poet, collector)
Caylus and his colleagues in Paris in the second and third decades of the eighteenth century worked to make their reproductive prints worthy of major Renaissance and Baroque paintings and drawings, mostly by Italian masters, in the collection of Paris connoisseur-extraordinaire Pierre Crozat (1665-1740). Caylus collaborated with Nicolas Le Sueur to define figures with fine etched outlines and then shade them with woodblocks (printed on a separate press). Crozat himself is also well-regarded by posterity as patron and friend of young genius-painter Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). There were productive stretches when Watteau lived and worked in Crozat's house, encouraged (no doubt) in his own struggles with the recalcitrant material world by the daily presence of the paintings these innovative prints were meant to evoke. In the next generation, as we have seen at the Hermitage, the majority of Pierre Crozat's paintings were acquired from his nephew by Catherine the Great and shipped to Russia.
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| Anne Claude de Caylus and Nicolas Le Sueur after Andrea Antonio Orazi Angels carrying the Fleece of Gideon ca. 1710-29 etching and chiaroscuro woodcut Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Anne Claude de Caylus and Nicolas Le Sueur after Giovanni Maria Morandi Annunciation ca. 1710-29 etching and chiaroscuro woodcut Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Anne Claude de Caylus and Nicolas Le Sueur after Cavaliere d'Arpino Fall of Phaeton ca. 1710-29 etching and chiaroscuro woodcut Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Anne Claude de Caylus and Nicolas Le Sueur after Baldassare Peruzzi Androcles and the Lion ca. 1710-29 etching and chiaroscuro woodcut Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Anne Claude de Caylus and Nicolas Le Sueur after Daniel Seiter St Sebastian ca. 1710-29 etching and chiaroscuro woodcut Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Anne Claude de Caylus after Rembrandt Joseph and Potiphar's Wife c1710-29 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Anne Claude de Caylus after Timoteo Viti Finding of Moses ca. 1710-29 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Anne Claude de Caylus after Raphael study for Descent of the Saracens ca. 1710-29 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Anne Claude de Caylus after Raphael study for Descent of the Saracens ca. 1710-29 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Anne Claude de Caylus after Raphael study for Dispute on the Holy Sacrament ca. 1710-29 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Anne Claude de Caylus after Raphael Christ carried to the Tomb ca. 1710-29 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Anne Claude de Caylus after Raphael Death of Adonis ca. 1710-29 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |