Belle épreuve sur vergé imprimée en brun et rouge, justifiée et signée. Trace de passe-partout à l’ouverture d’un ancien montage; légère trace de pli vertical et petite cassure. Tirage à 25 épreuves. Belles marges.

Very good impression on laid paper, numbered and signed. Some slight creases. Small margins. Edition of 50 impressions.

René BOYVIN
ca 1525 Angers + ca 1625
Engraving after L. Thiry

René Georges HERMANN-PAUL
1864 Paris + 1940 Les Saintes Maries de la Mer
Woodcut

Good impression on wove paper printed in black and red chalk at the location. Some rare foxings, mostly visible on the back; some small snags on the subject, one causing a tiny hole; slight small break at center. Good margins.

Very good impression on wove paper printed in colors, annotated “Épreuve d’état tirée par l’artiste” and signed. Editor C. Hessèle’s stamp (Lugt nr ).

Impression on strong wove paper, signed. Some small tears in the wide margins and uniform oxidation. Publisher’s stamp Hessèle (Lugt n°554).

Robert BONFILS
1886 Paris + 1971 Paris
Woodcut

Robert HECQUET editor
1693 Abbeville + 1775 Paris
Etching and engraving

Petitjean and Wickert nr 183 (IV / VI). Very good impression of 4th state (of 6), with the date of 1658. Strip of paper added at foot masking the platemark; small ink stain on the back at foot, very barely visible on front and tiny tear (?) at top. Small margins.

Robert NANTEUIL
1623 Reims + 1678 Paris
Engraving

1822 Montrelais + 1885 Sèvres

1822 Montrelais + 1885 Sèvres

Samuel BERNARD
1615 Paris – 1687 Paris
Etching and engraving after Testelin (?)

Sébastien BARRAS
ca 1665 Aix + ?
mezzotint after Plattemontagne (?).

Sébastien BOURDON
1616 Montpellier + 1671 Paris
Eau-forte originale