Live auction - Lot 268
La vie de la Sainte Vierge.
CALLOT, Jacques
Hammer price: €
1.600
€ 150 / 200
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
14 etchings, ca. 7,1 x 4,6 cm, laid paper, on title plate: "VITA ET / HISTORIA BEATAE / MARIAE VIRGINIS MATRIS / DEI. / A Nobili Viro I. Callot inventa / delineata atque in aes incisa / et ab Iseraele amico suo in / lucem edita. / [...] / Cum Privilegio Regis. / Parisijs.", Latin title, signature and address in lower margin.
Good impressions with margins. Excellent condition. Laid down on laid paper (13,3 x 8,1 cm), rebound in contemp. red morocco, covers with gold-stamped richly decorated Jesuit mark within gilt-ruled border frame, gilt spine with 4 raised bands and gilt crosses patoncé, gilt sides and orn. inside dentelles (corners bumped, spine def. with some loss of leather, joints rubbed).
Complete set of a series on the life of the Virgin. All 2nd state (of 3) before numbering, except title plate 2nd state (of 2) with text.
Ref. Lieure 1357-1370.