Author: Perrier, François (1594-1649)
Title: [Antique print, etching/ets, Rome] Boy in a toga /Jongen in toga ['Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum.'], published 1638.
Description: A boy draped in a toga and wearing a bulla round his neck, standing, turned to the left, arms outspread; after a Roman statue. Signed and numbered on the ground: FP B 40, FP monogrammed and the B stands for Bergognone. From 'Segmenta Nobiliarum Signorum et Statuarum', a series of 101 etched plates (frontispiece and 100 illustrations) representing statues from Rome, first published in Rome in 1638, and reprinted five times before the end of the seventeenth century. On verso, on the bottom right corner collector's mark: P in black (stencilled?). Date of publishing 1638. Etching on laid paper; plate mark: 212 x 110 mm, total: 293 x 179 mm; tip of the corners are folded in, tiny hole on the top right corner, not affecting the plate, otherwise very nice impression. Le Blanc 38-137.

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