Jacques Philippe Le Bas - after a work by Adriaen Brouwer - Le bon marie

Beautiful 18th century engraving by the French artist Jacques -Philippe Le Bas (1707 - 1783) after a work by Adriaen Brouwer entitled "Le bon marie".
His father was a wigmaker and his family was very poor, so he was raised by his mother. When he showed some aptitude for drawing, she placed him in an apprenticeship with the architect and engraver Antoine Hérisset [fr] He also received professional advice from Nicolas-Henri Tardieu and was inspired by the work of Gérard Audran.
Through Tardieu he met the financier and art collector Pierre Crozat, who was undertaking a project to have all the paintings in his collection engraved. Le Bas was commissioned to supply some of them. In 1733 he was hired by Charles Parrocel to provide the illustrations for the chapter titles of L'école de Cavalerie, by François Robichon de la Guérinière.
Dimensions: 24x16cm and with frame 45x32x2cm and glass plate for engraving.
The engraving is generally in good condition with signs of age.
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