Charles Émile Jacque, Untitled, (Man Reading Beside a Skull), Etching, 1866, Attributed on the Plate to José de Ribera
Etching on fine wove (Japan) paper, trimmed with narrow margins and lined on a conservator’s support sheet; Size: (sheet) 13.4 x 12.3 cm; (plate) 12.1 x 11.3 cm; (image borderline) 11.5 x 10.5 cm: Inscribed within the image borderline at the lower left with the artist’s initials, “C. J.” (shown in reverse on the book page) and “ARibera 1621”; numbered outside the image borderline at lower left: “1.”