Antique Print-CAELUS-CYBELE-SATURN-ROMAN MYTHOLOGY-Lacerf-Defraine-1811

Description

Caelus (Roman God of the sky), Cybele (Roman Magna Mater) and Saturn (Roman God of wealth, liberation and time).

Made by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after Leonard Defraine.

Medium: Handcoloured etching / engraving. on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 17.5 x 10.5 cm (6.89 x 4.13 inch). Image size: 15 x 10 cm. (5.91 x 3.94 inch).

Condition: good, given age. A dark stain in the top of the image. Paper edges browned. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

CAELUS-CYBELE-SATURN-ROMAN MYTHOLOGY | DPO-PCO-2-52

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This print originates from Lallement’s book ‘La Mythologie en Estampes, ou Figures des Divinites fabuleuses’ (Paris, 1811).

Biography engraver: Jacques Louis Lecerf (Le Cerf) was an eighteenth-nineteenth century French engraver. Jean-Florens Defraine (1754-?) was a French painter.