Live auction - Lot 109
Excellent copy of Mellan's masterpiece
[French]
Face of Christ on St Veronica's cloth.
1735
Hammer price: €
800
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Engraving, 43,8 x 31,8 cm, laid paper, signed and dated "MELLAN. IN. / .DUDESERT. SCULP. / 1735", Latin text (few spots, sm. scratch in date, few sm. repaired tears on edges, few inside platemark, flattened fold in corner, few corners repaired).
Hinged at left edges. Under passe-partout.
Magnificent copy by the enigmatic Dudesert in the same direction and with the same dimensions as Mellan's masterpiece. Described by Préaud as "une excellente copie".
Ref. IFF 17e XVII.46-47.21, copy 1.
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