1148 - Charles Clément Balvay (Bervic), "Le Serment" and "La Déclaration", gallant scenes, 18th century

Charles Clément Balvay (Bervic), "Le Serment" and "La Déclaration", gallant scenes, 18th century (1756 Paris – 1822 ibid.), copper engraving on paper, 2nd half 18th century, each inscribed below the image, stamp verso of the "von Parish Kostüm-Forschungs-Institut München" with the note "ausgeschieden", after Jean-Honoré Fragonard, young couples in a park before a sculpture of Venus or Cupid respectively, 1) "Le Serment", 2) "La Déclaration", condition commensurate with age, tears at the margins backed, partly extending into the image, rubbed area in the region of the inscription "Le Serment", stained, image each 51.5x40 cm (HxW), each in passe-partout, overall each 62x48 cm (HxW). Charles Clément Bervic, actually Balvay, was born in Paris on 23 May 1756 and died there on 23 March 1822. He first studied with Le Prince and from the age of 14 with the copper engraver Johann Georg Wille. In 1784 he became a member of the Académie royale, in 1803 of the Institut. His main works include the portrait of Louis XVI after Callet of 1790 and the Laocoon of 1812. The stamp on the reverse comes from the costume research institute of Hermine von Parish (1881 to 1966), whose collection passed to the Münchner Stadtmuseum in 1970.