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English: British Museum, Alexander the Great and Campaspe sitting on a couch and posing for Apelles standing in the foreground in front of his easel; at the back of the sheet, a sketch in pencil representing a chimney (?). c.1541/45 Etching by: Léon Davent After: Francesco Primaticcio 
   Height: 375 millimetres    Width: 260 millimetres

Zerner 1969 LD.51

One of the three plates etched after the frescoes executed by Primaticcio for the room of the Duchesse d'Etampes, Fontainebleau (1541-44). The preparatory drawing to Primaticcio's work is kept at Chatsworth (Inv.186). Also see 'The French Renaissance in Prints', Los Angeles 1994, cat. No.49
Date 1540s
date QS:P,+1540-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
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Author Léon Davent - French printmaker in the mid 16th century

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