Recueil d'estampes, gravées a l'eau forte : d'apres les plus fameux maitres d'Italie, et français, lesquelles se trouvent dans les cabinets des amateurs a Amsterdam
A collection of etchings published in Paris in 1788 by Basan and Poignant, reproducing drawings by famous Italian and French masters held in private collections in Amsterdam, and aimed at print collectors and connoisseurs. The plates are pen-like etched sketches of figures in landscapes and mythological or biblical scenes, with loose hatching, rippling clouds and foliage, and fleshy classical bodies, offering a designer examples of expressive line work and figure composition from the 18th century.
