The Four Stages of the Day. : Le Matin. L'Apres-dinee. Le Noir. La Nuit.

by Johann Jacob Haid

$1,800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Charming suite of mezzotints, capturing the quiet choreography of eighteenth-century domestic routine. Johann Jacob Haid, one of Augsburg's leading printmakers, depicts a young protagonist at successive moments: in the morning she adjusts her negligee beside an inviting breakfast service; after dinner she composes her hair and pearls before a mirror; toward evening she slips on her gloves in the open doorway, poised between interior refinement and the social world beyond;

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