Live auction - Lot 162
[French]
La paix faite en l'Isle aux boeufs pres Orleans le 13 Mars, 1563.
Late 16th c
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Etching, 31,6 x 48,9 cm (plate), 38,6 x 51,3 cm (sheet), laid paper, French letterpress text (flattened cross fold, repaired tears).
Large etching of the peace negotiations on the Île aux Boeufs in Orléans with Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France, Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France. This print was later copied by Frans Hogenberg.