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Léon DAVENT (attributed to): Portrait of Michelangelo

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Etching, 140 x 89 mm (borderline). Herbet 224 (appendix to the Catalogue de l’œuvre de L.D.); Renouvier (attributed to Léonard Thiry), p. 178.

Impression trimmed inside the platemark, 1 to 2 mm outside the borderline.

Provenance: Johann Andreas Boerner (1785-1862), print dealer in Nuremberg (Lugt 329); Arkady Alferoff (1811-1872), collector from Bonn (Lugt 1727); mid 19th anonymous collector (initials D.U., Lugt 796).

Reference: La gravure française à la Renaissance, BnF, Paris, 1995, no. 53, p. 264; Jules Renouvier Des types et des manières des maîtres graveurs, Vol. 1, p. 178.