Live Auction 17352Old Master Prints
WALLERANT VAILLANT (1623-1677)
Lot 152

WALLERANT VAILLANT (1623-1677)

The so-called Portrait of Prince Rupert

Closed10 December 2019

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WALLERANT VAILLANT (1623-1677)
The so-called Portrait of Prince Rupert
mezzotint, circa 1660-75, on laid paper, watermark Fleur-de-Lys without Shield (not in Briquet, Heawood or Laurentius), a very good impression of the second, final state, with the inscription, with wide margins, some very minor staining and foxing in the margins, otherwise in very good condition
Plate 213 x 165 mm., Sheet 269 x 209 mm.

Specialist note

This print by Wallerant Vaillant, one of the earliest practitioners of the mezzotint technique, is a reversed copy of a print which Hind attributed to Prince Rupert of the Rhine, who was traditionally understood to be the inventor of this printing technique. Hind's attribution has been doubted, as has been the indentification of the sitter as Prince Rupert himself.