Portrait du Prince de Phalsbourg

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JACQUES CALLOT (1592-1635)
Portrait du Prince de Phalsbourg
etching, 1617, on laid paper, watermark Lion and Star (Lieure 38), a fine, early impression of the only state, trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline on three sides, trimmed to the borderline below, in very good condition
Sheet 285 x 335 mm.

Literature

Lieure 505

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Lot Essay

According to Lieure, good, early impressions always have the present, elaborate watermark of the Lion with Star: 'Les belles épreuves sont sur papier au filigrane du lion étoilé.' He rated such impressions as rare.

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