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Henri Courvoisier-Voisin & Pierre-Charles Coqueret, signed.
Color print entitled "Vue de Paris n°12 Du Pont au Change, de Notre-Dame et du Pont Marie prise entre le Pontneuf et le Pont au Change". It depicts a view of the Seine River, with boats in the water. The river is crossed by two bridges, the Pont Neuf in the foreground and the Pont au Change in the background, on which riders, pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages can be seen. On either side, you can see the various features of Paris: on the left, the Tour Saint-Jacques, on the right, the Tour de l'Horloge near the Conciergerie on the Île de la Cité.
Print signed "Courvoisier del." lower left and "Coqueret sculp." lower right.
At the very bottom, near the margin: "Déposée à la Direction de la librairie".
Framed with water-green passe partout and moiré margin. Brown molded wood frame with black fillets.
Created during the Empire by the engraver and publisher Pierre-Charles Coqueret (1761-1832) from a design by Henri Courvoisier-Voisin (1756-1804).
Part of a series of 15 intaglio and aquatint prints of views of Paris and its immediate surroundings, produced before 1830.
Age marks, a few brown spots.
A similar copy is in the Musée Carnavalet.
Ref: GPEE3N0UI9