Sébastien BOURDON
1616 - 1671
Superb landscape adorned with monuments of a rich architecture
Original etching
295 x 435 mm, trimmed to the platemark
Very fine impression of the first state (on 3) before the Mariette’s address ; on the reverse, tiny fold strengthened in the lower part
Watermark: grape in a double circle with an inscirption (Heawood 2430-2432)
Provenance: John Barnard (Lugt 1420)
Reference: Robert-Dumesnil 34 i/iii
The subject can be in fact Jesus relating the parable of the father and not Joseph in the government of Egypt