Loading Of Provisions, Engraving After Nicolas Berghem, 1771

1771 XVIII etching and burin engraving by Jacques Philippe Le Bas, engraver (1707-1783) after a painting by Nicolaes Berghem (1620-1683). Jacques-Philippe Le Bas or Lebas was a French engraver, at the head of a workshop that trained most of the engravers constituting the golden age of French engraving in the 18th century. The scene represents a picturesque landscape mixed with ruins where an old lighthouse is outlined, ships anchored in the port with farm animals in the foreground accompanied by their shepherdesses and shepherds after a painting by Nicolas Berghem, painter known for his effects of shadow and light that suits engraving so well Tears at the margin of the engraving. Water stains and foxing