Theatrical costumes.- Lepautre (Jean) Six grotesque costume designs, after Jean Berain (1640-1711), including 'Habit d'Architecte', 'Habit de Musicien', 'Habit de Peintre', 'Habit d'Africain', 'Habit de Jardinier', and 'Habit d'Orfeure', etchings and engravings on laid paper, several with large armorial watermarks, each sheet approx. 360 x 230 mm (14 1/4 x 9 in), scattered spotting and surface dirt, handling creases, all unframed, [circa 1680]; together with a duplicate impression of 'Habit de Peintre' with early hand-colouring, [circa 1680s] (7)

Literature:
Inventaire du Fonds Français, nos. 23-28

⁂ A composite collection of eleven prints containing several other impressions of the prints in the present lot were sold in the Paul and Marianne Gourary Collection of Illustrated Fete Books (see Christie's, New York, 6th December 2009, lot 356, which sold for $3,000).