Lancret & Larmessin’s “Game of the Four Corners”: Large copperplate.

[Copperplate] / Nicolas de Larmessin / Nicolas Lancret. Le jeu des quatre coins. [Paris]: “De Larmessin Sculp.” “N. Lancret pinx.,” [c. 1740s]. [37.9 x 31.3 cm], [1] etched copperplate, with [1] f. modern strike from the plate. Scratches to copperplate, which are visible in the print, print trimmed on plate.

Large copperplate etched by Nicolas de Larmessin IV (1684-1755) after the popular painting by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743) known as Le jeu des quatre coins, or the Game of Four Corners. Depicted are three girls and one boy at play within a rococo landscape (other children look on).

Lancret’s Le jeu des quatre coins exists in various painted versions, with the best known being that in the Statens Museum for Kunst (Copenhagen). Larmessin’s name is found on more than one etched version.

I have located no other prints pulled from this plate.