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[Aeneas takes leave of Dido.]
Le Potre Invent et fecit.
Le Blond avec Privil [Paris, n.d., c.1660.]
Etching. 240 x 330mm (9¼ x 13"). Trimmed to plate, split in centre fold.
Aeneas takes leave of his lover, Queen Dido, at a quay in Carthage as his men load his ship.
[Ref: 61406] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Alexandre le Grand avalle la medecine, au mesme temps quil fit lire a son medecin la lettre, qui le taxoit d'empoisonnement.
J. Le Potre in. et Fecit.
Sold by S. Sympson Catherine Street Strand [n.d., c.1732].
Engraving. 230 x 295mm (9 x 11½"). Narrow margins.
The famous scene of Alexander the Great drinking a potion prepared by Philip of Acarnania, despite being warned by Parmenion that his physician had been bribed by Darius III to poison him, showing his trust in his friend. The scene is presented within an elaborate baroque architectural surround. In 1732 Samuel Sympson advertised for sale a volume of '164 different designs of the celebrated Master Le Potre' [Jean Lepautre] ... The said Mr Sympson having purchased the plates from France, the prints will be sold at a very low rate'. Sympson moved to Maiden Lane soon afterwards.
[Ref: 57715] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Divers Sujects d'Histoires, Saintes et Profanes. Inventez et gravez de Nouveau par J. Le Pautre Architecte et Dessinateur des Bâtimerns du Roy. Avec Privilege du Roy 1751. N.º 117.
A Paris rue Dauphine, chez Jombert, Librare du Roy.
Extract, 4to, 340 x 225mm (13¼ x 8¾"), very large margins; numbered engraved title and nine plates on five sheets, the complete set of plates from this section. 18th century watermark. A few nicks to edges of margin, occasional spotting.
The complete set of ten engravings of Jean Le Pautre's 'Divers Sujects d'Histoires, Saintes et Profanes', published as a section of Volume 3 of ''Oeuvres d'Architecture de Jean Le Pautre''.
[Ref: 62224] £480.00
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[Fete?]
le Pautre j.
a Paris chez N Langlois [n.d., c.1680s.] Avec privil[ege].
Engraving with early colour, thin watermarked laid paper; 165 x 235mm. 6½ x 9¼". Good margins.
A group of men eating at a table in a garden are entertained by dancers and music from a fiddler (right) and trumpet player (seated in foreground, far left). Numbered '2' lower right; from one of the albums of festivities published by Nicolas Langlois (1640 - 1703) .
[Ref: 23276] £120.00
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