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)