Antique Benoît Audran "True Value Is Always Invincible" After Charles Le Brun Etching

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Benoît Audran (1661 - 1721) engraver and publisher
Charles Le Brun (1619 - 1690) model author

True value is always … more Benoît Audran (1661 - 1721) engraver and publisher
Charles Le Brun (1619 - 1690) model author

True value is always invincible
C. Lebrun in i. Audran ex in Paris at Audran Palais du Luxembourg

before 1721

Etching and engraving. One of the six plates in the series on The Triumphs of Alexander the Great.

After a painting sketched by Charles Le Brun (1619 - 1690) between 1665 and 1673 but now lost

(the sketch is kept in Paris at the Louvre Museum under number INV 29424).
In Paris by Benoît Audran (1661-1721) at the Luxembourg Palace
and by the artist at the entrance to Faubourg St. Iâque facing Ygret
text margin and heraldic dedication.

bowl dimensions: 13 x 24.8 in, sheet: 13.8 x 26 in

bottom left and right: stains. a small tear on the right; excluding engraving. less