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Louis XIV, king of France on horse back

Pierre Lombart

1612/13 - 1681

Louis XIV, king of France on horse back

Original engraving
Plate called the knight with out head 
547 × 355 mm, trimmed to the copperplate in the upper part and under the coat of arms in the lower part, narrow margins
Fine and rare impression of the third or fourth state (on 7),  with the sketched head of Louis XIV substituting those of Cromwell, before being again the Cromwell’s head, then the head of Charles I, and again the head of Cromwell on the seven state, vertical and horizontal folds at reverse, short tear restored, soiling in margins
Watermark: Eagle (fragment, Heawood 1265)
Reference: Rapacciuolo, Préaud, Nouvelles de l’Estampe, n° 247, été 2014, iii ou iv/vii

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