Valentin Lefebre (1637–1677) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and printmaker.

Life

Valentin Lefebre was born in Brussels in 1637, or around 1642.Beyer, et al., eds. 2021. He died in 1677, or between 1680 and 1682: allegedly in Venice, or in England.''Benezit'' 2011.

Works

He etched the series ''Opera selectiora quae Titianus … et Paulus Calliari Veronensis invenerunt et pinxerunt''. The collection consists of fifty-three etchings after works by

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, and

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.Peinelt-Schmidt 2019, p. 207. The series was first published in Venice by

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in 1682, and was dedicated to

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. It was often reprinted: in 1684, 1749, and 1763; and later by Teodoro Viero, who added his address to the plates, in 1786 and 1789. In the church of

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in Padua is his painting of

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with angels (1688).

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* Beyer, Andreas; Savoy, Bénédicte; Tegethoff, Wolf, eds. (2021)
"Lefebvre, Valentine"
''Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - International Artist Database - Online''. Berlin, New York: K. G. Saur. Retrieved 12 October 2022. * Peinelt-Schmidt, Sabine (2019)
"9. Of Oak and Elder, Cloud-like Angels, and a Bird's Nest: The Graphic Interpretations of Titian's The Death of St. Peter Martyr by Martino Rota, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Valentin Lefebre, John Baptist Jackson, and their Successors"
In Goodchild, Karen; Oettinger, April; Prosperetti, Leopoldine (eds.). ''Green Worlds in Early Modern Italy: Art and the Verdant Earth''. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. pp. 207–216.
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists The ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists'' (in French, ''Bénézit: Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs'') is an extensive publication of bibliographical information on painters, sculptors, designers and engravers create ...

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Oxford Art Online Oxford Art Online is an Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press ...

. 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
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British Museum The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human cu ...

''. Retrieved 12 October 2022.

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