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[Alexander the Great pardons the family of Darius] Il est d'un roy de se vaincre soy mesme / Alexandre, ayant vaincu Darius pres la ville d'Isse entre dans une tente ou étoient la Mere la femme et les filles de Darius [...]
Car. le Brun pinxit J. Audran excudit
Se vend à Paris chez B. et J. Audran rue et faubourg St. Jaque vis a vis la rue St. Dominique. [c.1750]
Engraving, platemark 290 x 360mm (11½ x 14¼"), with very large margins. Paper time stained.
After defeating Darius in the battle of Issus (333 BC), Alexander found Darius' family (who he had left behind when fleeing the battlefield). One of a series of engravings reproducing a famous set of paintings by Charles Le Brun now in the Louvre.
From the Library of Pitsligo
[Ref: 45146] £260.00
Se vend à Paris chez B. et J. Audran rue et faubourg St. Jaque vis a vis la rue St. Dominique. [c.1750]
Engraving, platemark 290 x 360mm (11½ x 14¼"), with very large margins. Paper time stained.
After defeating Darius in the battle of Issus (333 BC), Alexander found Darius' family (who he had left behind when fleeing the battlefield). One of a series of engravings reproducing a famous set of paintings by Charles Le Brun now in the Louvre.
From the Library of Pitsligo
[Ref: 45146] £260.00