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Johann Gottlieb Prestel (graveur), d'après Raymond Lafage (dessinateur)

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Johann Gottlieb Prestel (engraver), after Raymond Lafage (draughtsman)
Grönenbach, 1739 - 1808, Frankfurt am Main |
Laocoon and his sons
Engraving
Signed and localized lower right J.g : Prestel : sc. in francfort am Main
25.5 x 36.5 cm - 10 1/16 x 14 3/8 in.

PROVENANCE
Private collection from Lyon.

(Sold framed)

This aquatint print was published in 1779 in a collection entitled Dessins des meilleurs Peintres des Païs-Bas, d'Allemagne et d'Italie| du Cabinet de Monsieur Gérard Joachim Schmidt à Hamburg, Gravés d'après les Originaux de même Grandeur par Jean Théophile Prestel, Peintre, Nuremberg, J. T. Prestel, Artaria.
There are also two reverse drawings of this engraving, in the Albertina in Vienna (inv. 11895) and the National Museum in Stockholm (inv. NM 2684 1863).
We would like to thank Alain Combres for kindly providing us with the bibliography and origin of the engraving. He is currently working on the catalog raisonné of the work of Raymond Lafage (1656-1684).