A female goddess
| Reference: | S38822 |
| Author | Louis ELLE |
| Year: | 1644 |
| Measures: | 142 x 228 mm |
€500.00
| Reference: | S38822 |
| Author | Louis ELLE |
| Year: | 1644 |
| Measures: | 142 x 228 mm |
€500.00
Description
Etching, 1644 circa, lettered at lower left “B” at lower right “F”; inscribed under the image“Bologna jnvent. Ferdinand Excudit. F.L.D.Ciartres formis”.
Example of the first state of two, with the imprint of François Langlois.
A good impression, printed on contemporary laid paper, with margins, good condition.
Some plates bear the excudit of F. L. D. Ciartres (the first edition is due to François Langlois dit Ciartres). - Collection of etchings engraved by Lous Elle, called Ferdiand, after various works by Francesco Primaticcio, to serve as method of drawing.
Rare.
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Elder son and pupil of his father, the painter Ferdinand Elle, whom he succeeded as court painter. His father was one of the instructors of N Poussin. He painted portraits with great reputation and was a member of the French Academy. Independent of his talent as a painter he etched several plates in a spirited and tasteful style and the prints for a book entitled “Le Livre original de la Portraiture…” printed at Paris in 1644. He sometimes omitted his name and substituted one of the initial letters as FF the second F standing for fecit and sometimes he affixes the single F without any other letter.
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Elder son and pupil of his father, the painter Ferdinand Elle, whom he succeeded as court painter. His father was one of the instructors of N Poussin. He painted portraits with great reputation and was a member of the French Academy. Independent of his talent as a painter he etched several plates in a spirited and tasteful style and the prints for a book entitled “Le Livre original de la Portraiture…” printed at Paris in 1644. He sometimes omitted his name and substituted one of the initial letters as FF the second F standing for fecit and sometimes he affixes the single F without any other letter.
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