François Vivares

François Vivares belongs to the eighteenth-century European school of reproductive printmaking, working primarily in etching and known for scenes of everyday life. His plates reproduce or interpret genre subjects rather than inventing them, and the single sheet held here — A Man Making Water — comes down as an etching whose trimmed margin hides the state number above the platemark. The archive therefore offers one impression only, a compact point of entry into his etched output rather than a survey of his career.

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A Man Making Water (18th century)

18th century · Etching; possibly New Holl.'s second state of two, but trimmed within the platemark above so number 3 not visible