Gilles DEMARTEAU (Liege 1729 - Paris 1776) "Deux Amours dans les airs" Original etching in the manière de crayon signed in the plate on the bottom right inside the composition "Demarteau l'Ainé S." and datable to 1767 the year in which it was exhibited at the Paris Motor Show, by a subject by Francois Boucher (1703 - 1770), printed and published by Demarteau himself in Paris in the same year and indicated in the line between the two sections of the frame as " Sixième Estampe à plusieurs crayons, du Cabinet de Monsieur de La Haye ". Beautiful specimen of the first version, with the genitals of the amino on the left completely visible (a version of the print "censored with veils" can be seen on DeLeymarie's work on page 50), in a contemporary edition, masterfully printed in two colors on typical eighteenth-century laid paper, trimmed just inside the impression of the slab without any loss, still inserted in a magnificent late nineteenth-century unopened frame which makes it a particularly genuine object. The specimens of the works of Demarteau printed at the "deux crayons" with this degree of quality are particularly rare and sought after by collectors. Bibliography: De Leymarie "L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'ainé" Paris 1896 page 51 n ° 153. Portalis - Beraldi "Les Graveurs du XVIIIieme siecle" Paris 1880 vol.1 pag. 718. Roux "Inventaire du Fonds Francais - Dix-Huitième siecle" Paris 1949 volume VI page 387 n ° 153. Measurements in mm: 485 x 555 (the frame)