Original old engraving, colored stencil with gold highlights on double-page paper

Portrait of a Couple in Costumes in a Landscape, Opera Night Festival given by Louis XIV

by the artist and illustrator André-Edouard Marty (1882-1974)

Part of the series of stencils made to illustrate the menus of the Ambassadeurs restaurant

Date : 20th century, 1920s

Style : Art Deco

Theme : Opera

Format : 20 x 20 cm image, 28.5 x 24.4 cm sheet 

Signature : the engraving is signed lower left

State of conservation : good condition, traces of use, leaf a little sunburned, small foxing (see photos)

Another pendant engraving by the same artist can be discovered on my Ebay store

In 1926, the restaurant "Les Ambassadeurs" asked four Vogue illustrators (Charles Martin, Georges Lepape, Pierre Brissaud and André-Edouard Marty) to create stencils for the presentation of its menus.