Antique Print-TRITON-PROTEUS-SIREN-SEA GOD-GREEK MYTHOLOGY-Lacerf-Defraine-1811

Description

A Siren, Proteus (Old Man of the Sea, an early god form Greek mythology), Triton (Greek god, messenger of the sea).

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: 16 x 10 cm. (6.3 x 3.94 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Faint discolouration in the right edge. Paper edges browned. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

TRITON-PROTEUS-SIREN-SEA GOD-GREEK MYTHOLOGY | DPO-PCO-2-54

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.