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No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Raymond La Fage & Franz. Ertllinger (illustrator). Limited Edition. Raymond la Page (or La Fage) 1656-1684. Copper Engraving by Franz Ertlinger. Small frieze a Bacchanalian or Romanesque Revel scene. Condition; Small pin hole in the white near the top, a closed split to the right corner and a light crease line from when tipped onto another backing, light surface dustiness. very good. On lined hand-made paper. Measures; 11 x 34 cm. DATES to, c1680.* BIOG notes; An attractive classical Romanesque games or festivities image from an artist who's work is rarely seen as he died at a young age of 28. According to the RKD (Netherlands Institute of Art) he was a student of Jean-Pierre Rivalz, and in turn he taught that painter's son Antoine Rivalz, and the painter François Boitard. He travelled to Italy to make drawings after Italian masters, and is registered as having worked in Toulouse. He planned a second sojourn in Italy, but died en route in Lyon. ***According to Houbraken he was able to draw a crowd in a tavern with his ingenious method of drawing a complicated version of the Pharaoh entering the red sea in two hours, from what appeared to be random scratches on a piece of paper. Houbraken became familiar with his other work through the prints published by Jan van der Brugge, who made a series titled "Effigies Raymundi la Fage" with engravings by Cornelis Vermeulen, Gérard Audran, Franz Ertinger, and Charles Louis Simonneau.