OLD MASTER] Jacques-Philippe Le Bas (1707-1783) French engraver. Lebas was engraver to the Cabinet du roi and successfully produced engravings after several paintings by different artists. His oeuvre amounts to more than 500 works, including many large portraits after Vernet, and several works after van de Velde, Parrocel, Berchem, RuysdaÎl, Watteau, Oudry and Lancret. He trained the line engraver FranÁois-Anne David. Original etching and/or engraving from the Le Bon Mari series. Another example of this print is in the British Museum and they identify it as etching? engraving?, their date 1725-1760, "The good husband; rustic interior with a peasant man sitting and wiping the bottom of a baby lying on his knee, behind him stands an old toothless woman shouting insults at him; lettered state; after Adriaen Brouwer Etching and engraving". Approx. image 7-3/4 x 5-1/2 + engraved identification below, slim margins, tipped at all corners to old thick laid paper. VG. The following museums, and many others, have examples of Le Bas prints: Metropolitan Museum of Art [NY] has 8; Chicago Art Inmstitute [2]; Harvard Art Museum [13]; Boston Art Museum; Fitzwilliam, etc..

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