Claude VIGNON
1593 – 1670
Andromache pleading with Ulysses
1640
Frontispiece for Sallebray’s La Troade
Original etching
206 × 154 mm, trimmed within the platemark
Fine impression of the second state (of 3), with the letter and before the plate was reused as the frontispiece for Charles Hardy’s Jugement équitable, 1645, two small tears near the base of the column, one of which is restored, thinning in the lower corners, creases on the reverse, small break at the centre crease. Unidentified watermark
Reference: Robert-Dumesnil VII 27, Pacht Bassani 317 ii/iii