Cassandra stopping Deiphobus from killing Paris

Details

JEAN MIGNON (ACTIVE 1535-1555) AFTER LUCA PENNI (CIRCA 1500-1577)
Cassandra stopping Deiphobus from killing Paris
etching, circa 1544-45, on laid paper, watermark Small Circle (circa 1545; see Jenkins, vol. I, p. 109-110), a very good, early impression, trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a strip of blank paper outside the borderline on all sides, the sheet slightly toned and cockled due to remains of old adhesive verso, otherwise in good condition
Sheet 316 x 440 mm.

Provenance

Fürst zu Fürstenberg, Donaueschingen, Germany (Lugt 995; without the mark); Sotheby's, London, 18 July 1982, lot 589 (as 'Sinon in the Camp of the Trojans') (£ 682).
Acquired at the above sale.

Literature

Bartsch 46; Zerner 43
C. Jenkins, Prints at the Court of Fontainebleau c. 1542-47, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, 2017, no. JM 43, p. 307-313 (another impression illustrated).

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Lot Essay

The print belongs to a small series of six prints of scenes from the Trojan War. Two closely related drawings of this subject by Luca Penni are at the Louvre, Paris (inv. 1397 & 1398).
The print shows some offsetting of two letterpress pages in brown ink on the reverse, which may provide evidence that books were also printed and published at Fontainebleau. Unfortunately, we have so far been unable to identify the specific, rather anachronistic publication printed in Gothic type.
We are grateful to Catherine Jenkins, London, for her help in cataloguing this lot.

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