Author: Perrier, François (1594-1649)
Title: [Antique print, etching/ets, Rome] Medici Agrippina ['Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum.'], published 1638.
Description: Draped woman, facing front, with left hand raised at shoulder height; after an antique statue identified as Agrippina, from the Medici collection. Signed and numbered on the ground: 79 / FP B, 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: 225 x 120 mm, total: 294 x 180 mm; some smudges on the margins, a black tiny stain on the outer right margin, slightly yellowing borders; otherwise in good condition. Le Blanc 38-137.

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