Habit de Musicien.

Engraving, contemp. hand-coloured, 29 x 20 cm, laid paper, signed in the plate at lower margin (yellow-toned, some stains).

Under passe-partout, gilt frame (not studied outside frame).

Throughout his career, de Larmessin II (1632-1694) conceived numerous “grotesque costumes” possibly made at the behest of French engraver, Francois Jollain. These engravings run the gamut of seventeenth-century professions with each profession receiving a surrealist makeover.