Léon DAVENT
Milieu 16ème siècle
Mars et Vénus servis à table par l’Amour et les trois grâces
1543-1547
Etching after Luca Penni
288 x 436 mm, thread margins or trimmed to the platemark
Fine and rare impression, annotated on the reverse in pen and brown ink H 243, central vertical fold, some foxing visible on the reverse.
Watermark: Small Coat of Arms of Nuremberg (similar to Briquet 919 and to Meder, Dürer, watermark no 210, dating between 1543 and 1560)
Reference: Zerner 74, Ill. Bartsch 52, p. 204, Herbet 73, p. 85, Baselitz 34
Purchase by the National Gallery of Washington