10. Léon Davent (Master L.D.)
(fl. ca. 1540-1565)
Musicians

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Davent, Musicians

Musicians

Etching, actually the left half of A King Kneeling Before an Altar, 109 x 250 mm., Zerner 42 (undescribed early state), Bartsch N.D., Hebert N.D., ex collection: K.M. (not in Lugt). Fine, early impression of this rare Fontainebleau print, with polishing scratches, on laid paper with narrow margins outside the plate mark, which is visible on all four sides. The impression is before any monogram. While this is the left half of a larger etching, Zerner makes no mention of two separate plates, though the impression he illustrates shows a clear division between the halves, possibly a sharp fold but more likely a joining of two sheets, each of which contains one letter of the LD monogram (absent here and obviously added sometime after this impression was printed). This left half is an interesting image in itself, showing a group of musicians performing on cornettos, trombones, transverse flute and violin (all left-handedly, as one might expect, as the print is reversed from a presumably lost drawing or painting by Primaticcio). No impression of this print, in any form, has appeared at auction for at least 30 years.

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