Jacques Callot (1592 - 1635)
PARTERRE DU PALAIS DE NANCY (THE PALACE GARDENS AT NANCY). 1625. Lieure 566i (of ii). Etching with engraving, 258 x 388 mm (10 3/16 x 15 ¼"), trimmed just outside the borderline on three sides, outside the plate mark below. A fine, delicate impression in very good condition.
“The daughter of Henry II, Duke of Lorrain is at bottom center, holding a parasol, surrounded by members of the court, soldiers and a crowd of onlookers”. – Betsy G. Fryberger: The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art, University of California Press, 2003.
$8,500.
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