Landscape with a Woman Fleeing at the Sight of a Soldier

1550s

Léon Davent

Artist, French, active 1540 - 1556

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 16.1 x 23.8 cm (6 5/16 x 9 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.10.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Zerner 1969, Vol. p.22-23, undescribed

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, Paris); purchased by NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1969

  • Herbet, Félix, Les Graveurs de l'Ecole de Fontainebleau. Amsterdam: 1969.

  • Zerner, Henri. Ecole de Fontainebleau, gravures.Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1969. English ed. The School of Fontainebleau, etchings and engravings. London: Thames and Hudson, 1969.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: LD; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Leon Davent /Thiry / 1500-1565 / L.D.; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: SL 4906 H / 40

Watermarks

undeciphered

Wikidata ID

Q75126034

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