Louis-Joseph LE LORRAIN (1715 - 1759): Solomon worshipping idols - 1742
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Etching, 295 x 225 mm. IFF 2.
Very fine impression printed on laid paper, trimmed to the platemark or just outside. Very good condition. Slight soiling on verso.
Le Lorrain's etching reproduces a painting by Jean-François de Troy also dating from 1742. This painting, now lost, has its counterpart in Le Jugement de Salomon painted by de Troy the same year and also etched by Le Lorrain (IFF 1, see the Rijksmuseum impression). The painting is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon.
Jean-François de Troy was director of the Académie de France in Rome during Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain's stay there between 1740 and 1749. The young artist had won the Prix de Rome in 1739.