La chasse à l ours, au sanglier, au loup, aux oiseaux, au cerf et au lièvre [six hunting scenes].

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Oblong 4to (188 x 290mm.): 6 engraved plates, unnumbered and untitled (title above from Robert-Dumesnil); each engraving approx. 66 x 220 mm. and cut to plate mark and mounted. Bound in modern half brown morocco. PROVENANCE: bookplate of German businessman and merchant Hans Dedi (1918-2016). FIRST STATE OF ÉTIENNE DELAUNE S ENGRAVINGS OF HUNTING SCENES. According to Robert-Dumesnil, the engravings exist in three states: first state engravings are unnumbered and without engraver address, as here; second state plates are unnumbered and read "F.L.D. Ciartes excud."; and third state plates are numbered and read "Mariette et fils". Etienne Delaune (1518-1583) was principally known as a designer of medals, metalwork and guns. He provided many designs for the much-admired decorative arts of France under King Henry II. Delaune worked as a journeyman goldsmith in Paris in 1546, where he was briefly employed as the king s chief medallist at the royal mint in 1552. He was dismissed from that post but continued working for the king, creating designs for Henry s parade armor in 1556. Delaune took up engraving around 1557. His first dated prints, twelve plates illustrating the Old Testament and two designs for hand mirrors, appeared in 1561. The Italian artists of the School of Fontainebleau greatly influenced his draftsmanship and his engraving style. Delaune made hundreds of ornamental designs for jewelry and pictorial engravings, noteworthy for their decorative nature and their technical precision despite their often small size. His engravings helped to disseminate the Fontainebleau style among artists and craftsmen in France and abroad. As a Protestant, Delaune left Paris at the time of the Saint Bartholomew s Day Massacre in 1572. He took refuge in Strasbourg, a free city of the Holy Roman Empire, where he mainly stayed until his return to Paris in 1580. REFERENCES: A.P.F. Robert-Dumesnil, Le peintre-graveur français (Paris 1865), vol. IX, nos. 275-280; J. Paul Getty Museum, Collections Online (2000-); Thieme-Becker, Bd. 9, 1913, S. 2 ff. N° de ref. del artículo 72JFP081

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