depicting a statue of a faun by the sculptor Louis Lérambert (1620-1670), one of a group of eight satyrs and fauns erected as part of the ‘petite commande’ of 1664, and program of irreverent burlesque variations on classical Italian garden ornament inspired by Charles and Claude Perrault for Louis XIV. Jean Lepautre (1618-1682) is often referred to as Jean Le Potre, as on this plate from the ‘Cabinet du Roi’, which is titled in Latin and French,
engraving on watermarked laid paper, 410 x 285 mm. (16 1/8 x 11 1/4 in), a short repaired tear in each side margin, both well outside the plate mark, [IFF 357.II],