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The Dance under the Trees

Claude Gellée dit LE LORRAIN

1600 - 1682

The Dance under the Trees

Small plate, ca. 1637
Original etching
136 × 196 mm, small or thread margins
Very fine impression of the fourth state B (of 7), with the number 6 in the left margin and the scratch across the highest of the birds, before the removal of two birds and before the complete rework of the plate ; small thinnings in the top left and bottom right corners
Watermark: Easter lamb inside a circle with the letter A (Manocci, watermark 19)

Reference: Manocci 19 iv (B)/vii

Provenance: Part of an unidentified collector’s stamp appears twice on the reverse (Lugt 2868 a)

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