inscribed ‘A Paris, Chez Defer, Quai Voltaire, No 19./ Lith de Villain./ Le Compagnon des Jeunes Artistes.’ (in the stone)
27 x 35.5 cm
lithograph
Undescribed
A good impression with wide margins, the sheet has been treated, and there is some occasional surface dirt and remnants of graphite on the verso, there are some creases along the lower edge, the sheet is in otherwise good condition

Provenance:
With Laurentius Old Master Prints, Middelburg.

Very little is known about Defer’s activities as a printmaker. A pupil of Jean-Victor Bertin (1775-1842), Defer was mostly active as a painter and hardly any of his prints appear to have survived. The present print copies, in reverse, a soft ground etching by David Cox (1753-1859) which is the title page to ‘A treatise on landscape-painting and effect in water-colours’ first published in 1819.