18th-Century French Costume Engraving, La Promenade du Soir After Freudenberger, 1774

18th-Century French Costume Engraving, La Promenade du Soir After Freudenberger, 1774

A beautiful glimpse into fashionable life in pre-Revolutionary France, La Promenade du Soir — The Evening Stroll — dates to 1774 and is after Swiss artist Sigmund Freudenberger (1745–1801), engraved by French artist François-Robert Ingouf (1747–1812).

The elegant garden scene captures beautifully dressed figures meeting amid an idyllic landscape—a wonderfully detailed record of the fashion, courtship, leisure and social rituals of late-18th-century society.

The composition belongs to the celebrated world of the French Monument du Costume, created to document the dress and manners of fashionable society in the years immediately preceding the French Revolution.

According to the auction-house cataloguing, this impression is on laid, watermarked paper and displays the foxing and toning expected of an antique work on paper.

Presented beneath glass in an ornate gilt frame with beautiful layered powder-blue, ivory and gilt matting.

DETAILS:
• La Promenade du Soir — The Evening Stroll
• After Sigmund Freudenberger (Swiss, 1745–1801)
• Engraved by François-Robert Ingouf (French, 1747–1812)
• 1774
• Laid, watermarked paper per auction-house cataloguing
• Approx. 10¾” H × 7½” W sight
• Approx. 16½” H × 12⅞” W overall framed
• Antique condition with foxing, toning and age-related wear as photographed

$395 — insured shipping included within the continental U.S.

Purchase two or more engravings from this collection for $375 each.