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Jacques Callot
La Tentation de Saint Antoine (L. 1416)
etching, 1635, a superb black impression of the extremely rare second state of five, displaying excellent contrasts, watermark Bunch of Grapes, with a narrow margin at the bottom and trimmed on or just inside the platemark on the other three sides, thereby retaining a fillet of blank paper beyond the subject, two old vertical and horizontal folds mainly visible on the reverse, a repaired tear in the title space at the lower right corner, some staining and discolouration, a few other minor defects
S. 358 x 460 mm.
La Tentation de Saint Antoine (L. 1416)
etching, 1635, a superb black impression of the extremely rare second state of five, displaying excellent contrasts, watermark Bunch of Grapes, with a narrow margin at the bottom and trimmed on or just inside the platemark on the other three sides, thereby retaining a fillet of blank paper beyond the subject, two old vertical and horizontal folds mainly visible on the reverse, a repaired tear in the title space at the lower right corner, some staining and discolouration, a few other minor defects
S. 358 x 460 mm.