Laurent Cars

Laurent Cars belongs to the French engraving tradition of the eighteenth century, working in etching and engraving and reproducing compositions by other artists for the illustrated book market. His plates, as represented here, survive in a later state, an impression struck from a worn or reworked copper plate. The archive holds a single sheet by him: an etching and engraving after François Boucher, made for the Molière illustrations and titled Dom Garcie de Navarre ou le prince Jaloux. It documents how a printmaker translated a painter's designs into the linear language of the burin and the etching needle.

1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

Dom Garcie de Navarre ou le prince Jaloux, from "Gravures de Boucher pour les Oeuvres de Molière" [Figures de Boucher pour Molière]

mid-18th century · Etching and engraving; later state