CLAUDE GELLÉE, LE LORRAIN

Etching and drypoint, 1636. 

132x200 mm; 5¼ x 7 inches. 

Transitional state between 5 and 6, according to Mannocci (or an early printing of state 6?). The number 4 is faintly visible in the left margin and there are remnants of the text at center below the image that Mannocci identifies as characteristic of the penultimate state. Signed and dated in the plate. With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. Printed on thin paper. Pencil annotations on the reverse.