Jean MIGNON: Cassandra Stopping Deiphobus from Killing Paris - c. 1544/1545
Price: 19 000 €
Etching, 320 x 445 mm. Jenkins JM43, Zerner JM43, Bartsch 46.
Very fine impression printed on laid watermarked paper (watermark: grapes). A 20 cm repaired tear in the left part, almost invisible on the recto, a very light stain in the bottom. Thread margins all around the platemark.
Very rare.
“Long identified as the Treacherous Sinon in the Camp of the Trojans, this composition is now thought to represent Cassandra preventing Deiphobus from killing their brother Paris, who was the victor in the funerary games held in his memory in the mistaken belief that he was dead (Cordellier, 2012 (1), pp. 48-49).” (Catherine Jenkins: Prints at the Court of Fontainebleau, c. 1542-47, 2017, vol. 2, p. 308).
Cassandra Stopping Deiphobus from Killing Paris is part of a set of five other etchings of the same dimensions engraved by Jean Mignon after models by Luca Penni, relating episodes of the Trojan War (Jenkins JM40 à 45): Judgment of Paris, Abduction of Helen, Battle before Troy, The Troyans Bringing the Wooden Horse into their City, Battle in the Palace of Priam.