Artist: Claude Lorrain (1600 - 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman, and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy and is one of the earliest influential artists, apart from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, to concentrate on landscape painting.
Title: L'enlèvement d'Europe. (Europa and the Bull).
Signed in plate l.r. Claudio Gille I.N.V. F. Romae 1634.
Dimensions: Sheet 7 3/4" x 10 1/8". Backing sheet 10 1/8" x 14 1/8".
Publisher: John McCreery, English publisher and printer (1768-1832).
Edition: A Collection of Original Etchings. Published by McCreery. London, 1816. The original copper plates were believed to be destroyed after this publication.
Date: 1816 (published).
Materials and Techniques: etching on a thin, lightweight paper printed without margins. Mounted on the same paper as other McCreery prints and presumably taken from the same volume because of the same three sides' gilded edges and matching size.
Mat and Frame: adhered to backing paper at corners.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: scattered spotting, tears to margins. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: French School XVII C. British School XIX C.