Live auction - Lot 156
[French]
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Paris, Louis Jacques Cathelin, 1781
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
Engraving, 36,5 x 44,6 cm, laid paper (few marg. ms. notes, few sm. tears on edges).
Hinged at upper edges, under passe-partout.
Large print by Louis Jacques Cathelin (c. 1739-1804) after Valentin de Boulogne (1594-1632), heavily influenced by Caravaggio (1571-1610). Proof before the signature, address and dedication to the French writer and politician Charles, Marquis de Villette (1736-1793).
Ref. IFF 18e IV.39.91.
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