DUFLOS Claude (editor, engraver) , LE BRUN Charles... Lot 4

DUFLOS Claude (editor, engraver) , LE BRUN Charles (inventor, after) The Massacre of the Innocents Burin and etching on laid paper, pasted on paper 18th century 29,5 x 39,5 cm (oxidations, soiling, lacks) Under the t.c. 3 columns of 4 lines, on the left: 'Herodes videns [...] and below./Matth. Cap.2.', in the middle 'To Messire Marc René de Voyer de Palmy, Chevalier Marquis Dargenson [...] Vicomte/de Paris.//Per son tres humble Serviteur Cl. Duflos.' and on the right: 'Herodes voyant [...] au dessous. S Matth. Chap.2.'; Under the t.c. in the frame on the left: 'Gravé par Cl. Duflo sur le tableau de C. le Brun, qui est dans le Cabinet de M. le President du Metz.' and on the right: 'a Paris chez Duflos rüe St. Iacques 1706.' A print of this engraving is present in the collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Orléans.