Valentine Green (1739-1813) after Sir Peter Paul Rubens

细节

Valentine Green (1739-1813) after Sir Peter Paul Rubens

The Descent from the Cross, with the Visitation and the Presentation in the Temple (Le Blanc 17-19)

mezzotints, the set of three, 1790, proofs before the final text, these very slightly indicated, with margins, minor staining in places, unexamined out of the frame which includes all three prints

P. 911 x 304, 913 x 612 and 913 x 303 mm (3)

拍品专文

After the triptych in the Cathedral, Antwerp, which was commissioned by the Guilt of the 'Haakbusschutters' in 1611 and executed between 1612 and 1614 (see M. Rooses, l'Oeuvre de P.P. Rubens, 1888, II, pp. 105/12, nos. 307/09 - with mezzotints of the two wings by Green illustrated on plate 109)

See illustration