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拍品专文
The present etching belongs to a group of three oval prints on hunting subjects after Primaticcio. They are presumably based on the design for a series of wall or ceiling paintings at Fontainebleau, possibly in the Cabinet du Roi, although the actual location of the paintings is not recorded.
The sheet bears an Arms of Nuremberg watermark. This and the Arms of Schrobenhausen watermark has been detected on several impression of prints by Davent and the Master of the Black Eye, executed between 1546-47, on sheets of finer quality than the French paper used in Fontainebleau. A third of the impressions with the Nuremberg watermark show offsetting of other etchings, as a result of the freshly printed impressions being stacked on top of each other. This may suggest a more organised printing campaign, either at Fontainebleau itself or in Paris, with an effort to use higher quality paper. The present sheet has an offsetting verso of another etching by Davent: Mars and Venus being served at the Table (LD 74).
The sheet bears an Arms of Nuremberg watermark. This and the Arms of Schrobenhausen watermark has been detected on several impression of prints by Davent and the Master of the Black Eye, executed between 1546-47, on sheets of finer quality than the French paper used in Fontainebleau. A third of the impressions with the Nuremberg watermark show offsetting of other etchings, as a result of the freshly printed impressions being stacked on top of each other. This may suggest a more organised printing campaign, either at Fontainebleau itself or in Paris, with an effort to use higher quality paper. The present sheet has an offsetting verso of another etching by Davent: Mars and Venus being served at the Table (LD 74).