Artist: Jean Lepautre (1618-1682)
Title: Frontispiece to a suite of ornament prints, Panneaux en largeur
Date: after 1654
School: French XVIIth century
Medium: etching
Dimensions: 127 x 190mm (plate), 186 x 270mm (sheet)
Watermark: Churchill 539
Inscriptions/marks: in the plate on the front of Minerva’s shield <<I. le Pautre in. et fecit A Paris chez I. van Merlen rue S. Iacques a la ville d’Anvers, Avec priul. Du Roy 1654>> In the plate below the shield <<I>>
Condition: good condition with wide margins on laid paper and clear watermark of double LLs with crown, slight discolouration at the edges
Description: Frontispiece to a set of six ornament prints
Reference: IFF Jean Lepautre 1735 ii/ii
Provenance: The Print Room, London, 1993
