Landscape with Arched Tomb and an Obelisk

Details

LÉON DAVENT (ACTIVE 1540-1556)
Landscape with Arched Tomb and an Obelisk
etching, circa 1540-56, on thin laid paper, without watermark, a good impression of this very rare print, trimmed to or just inside the platemark, a short tear at the upper sheet edge, the four corners torn and repaired, with pale time staining and occasional pinpoint foxmarks
Plate & Sheet 163 x 241 mm.

Provenance

A. Thomassin, his stamp recto (Lugt 184);
Ulrich Ochsenbein (1811-1890) and Alfred Ochsenbein (1883-1919), Switzerland; then by descent.

Literature

Passavant 103; Herbet 7; IFF p. 296, no. 7

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Lot Essay

To our knowledge no other impression of this print has been offered at auction within the last thirty years.

We are grateful to Catherine Jenkins, London, for her help in cataloguing this lot.

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