1856A

Saint Apollonius

Artist: Workshop of Thomas de Leu (1571-1611/1612)
Title: Saint Apollonius
Date: 1606
Medium: Engraving. Published in Paris in 1606 by Thomas de Leu (1571-1611/1612). Plate 8 of the 30 in the Solitudo Sive Vitae Patrem Eremicolarum. After an engraving [TIB 7001.356] by Johan Sadeler I (1550-1600), itself after a drawing by Maarten de Vos (1532-1603) dated 1586.
Photo Source: PESSCA Archive
Note: There is a close version of this print published by Jean Leclerc IV. The Leclerc print is to be preferred as the source of the Colquepata painting of this anchorite.
Item: 1856A