Lefebre, Valentin (sold)
Valentin Lefebre (1637–1677) was a Belgian painter and etcher active in the latter half of the seventeenth century. He was born in Brussels, but settled in Venice where he produced a series of etchings reproducing the paintings of Titian and Veronese. The series was left unfinished at his early death, and finally published in 1682 by Jacques van Campen. He appears to have engraved the lettering for several maps published in Paris, by Du Val and by De Fer.
Unique First State.
Candie/ La Ville de Candie pour la 3e. sois attaquee de L'armée Ottomane, et deffendue par Celle de la Serenissime Rep: de Venise... 1667, 68 et 69.
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This is an extremely rare, likely unique, separately published 1668 broadsheet plan of the port of Heraklion / Candia, Crete, incorporating a striking panoramic view of the city. This broadsheet illustrates Venetian-controlled Heraklion during the final years of its 21-year-long Ottoman siege. It was privately commissioned and engraved to lionize the efforts of French nobleman Alphonse-Louis, Chevalier d’Harcourt, who perceived himself not only a defender of Crete, but as a latter-day crusader defending Christianity itself. (more details)