The Inn Yard. From the Original Picture

by Peter de Laër, called Bamboccio; In the Collection of Robt. Udney Esqr by After Pieter van Laer, Boddingh, called 'il Bamboccio'

$475 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine example of van Laer's 'bambocciata' compositions, ably engraved by one of the great late 18th century engravers working in London. The title notes that the original picture, from which this engraving is taken, was 29 inches by 38 inches. Dutch painter and printmaker. Van Laer was ... active mainly in Rome, where he established a reputation as the inventor of the bambocciata Fr. bambocciade , a variety of painting characterized by its small size, naturalistic style

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