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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 207403, member: 56&quot;]Venus and Cupid painted in the late 16th – early 17thC by Alessandro Allori.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pinted by the publisher Chardon Aine the dates of which are given online as 1830-60</p><p><br /></p><p>Engraved by Ph (Philippe?) Trierre.&nbsp; The only reference I can find is this (to a print dated to 1882):</p><p><a href="http://www.theprintscollector.com/Article/Antique-Print-JOCONDE-PARDON-La-Fontaine-Malet-1882" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theprintscollector.com/Article/Antique-Print-JOCONDE-PARDON-La-Fontaine-Malet-1882" rel="nofollow">http://www.theprintscollector.com/Article/Antique-Print-JOCONDE-PARDON-La-Fontaine-Malet-1882</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So I would guess your print dates close to 1860.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the plate was taken directly from the painting (or some copy of it), then the image would be correct on the engraved plate, but a printed image taken from that plate would be reversed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure what is printed above the title.&nbsp; It almost looks like Donne par c Bardi, which I would take to mean donated by Bardi, but that may be totally incorrect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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