COVERED ENGRAVING - "ST ANGE GARDIEN de mon corps et de mon ame, redoublez je vous prie, voa". c.1700. Engraving with burin, on laid paper, formerly dressed with fabric and embroidered. Small margins of the copper. "When one speaks of dressed prints one thinks first of fashion prints, painted and decorated with pieces of cut fabric, the subject of the print seeming to naturally call for such a treatment. But just as numerous are the engravings with religious subjects that were dressed in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, starting with the Parisian intaglio prints representing elegant scenes from the life of Christ or the Virgin and the saints after painters such as Charles Le Brun, Pierre Mignard, Nicolas Loir, Antoine Dieu, Jean-Baptiste Corneille, Antoine Coypel, etc., published most often by Bonnart, Mariette, Bazin, Poilly, Chiquet or Chéreau, as well as by Gentot from Lyon, a specialist in cut-outs, who had a branch in Paris. [Although devotional images represent an important part of the production of engravings dressed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it is certain that other subjects have benefited from this enrichment. Let us quote in particular secular works, of which certain portraits of sovereigns and characters of the court, actors and characters of theater, without forgetting scenes of kind". (Les " estampes habillées " : acteurs, pratiques et publics en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Pascale Cugy, Georgina Letourmy-Bordier et Vanessa Selbach). (23 x 19) - Condition C -