Live auction - Lot 75
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Gerard de Lairesse.
Amsterdam, Pieter Schenck, late 17th-early 18th c
€ 80 / 100
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Lot description
Mezzotint, 24,4 x 17,8 cm, titled and signed "GERARDUS LARISSE / PICTOR / LEODIENSIS. / G. Larisse pinx.", signature and address "P. Schenck Sculp: C. P. Amstelod.", Latin text (trimmed outside platemark, few spots and scratches).
Mounted on paper.
Refined mezzotint by Pieter Schenck (1660-1713) after a painted self-portrait of Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711). 1st state before the reworked face and with the circular inscription still legible.
Ref. Hollstein XXV.183.714.I (of III).