Landscape with a Woman Fleeing at the Sight of a Soldier, 1550s

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

1995.10.2

Artists / Makers

Léon Davent (artist) French, active 1540 - 1556

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

Bibliography

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

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.