May 08, 2018 - Sale 2477

Sale 2477 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
FERDINAND ELLE (after Fantuzzi)
Jupiter and Antiope.

Etching, circa 1620. 174x260 mm; 6 7/8x10 1/4 inches, thread margins. Small bunch of grapes watermark. A very good impression of this scarce French etching.

Elle (1570-1637) was a French portrait painter and the court painter of Louis XIII from 1601 until his death. He was the teacher of Nicolas Poussin and his son, the painter Louis Ferdinand Elle. Zerner XLV.