The rape of the Sabine Women.

Antwerp, Pierre-François, Martenasie, 1769

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2 engravings, 53 x 64,5 cm, laid paper, unsigned (several sm. tears in marginal edges, some min. foxing).

Two unique proof impressions showing two different stages in the printing process of a large engraving after a painting by Rubens. One unrecorded state (without hatching in the architecture and several figures) and one impression of the first state. Both before lettering in the lower margin.
Ref. Corpus Rubenianum (Subjects from History), 40.6.
Prov. Hubert Dupond (stamp in verso, Lugt 3926).

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