Two drovers walking with their packed mules through a forest at night. Line engraving by J. Couché after a design attributed to A. Allegri, il Correggio.

Previous title, replaced December 2023 : Two drovers walking with their packed mules trough a forest at night. Line engraving by J. Couché after a design attributed to A. Allegri, il Correggio.

[Paris] : [publisher not identified]

1 print : line engraving, with etching ; image 14.8 x 20.5 cm

Les mulets. De la galerie du Palais Royal. École de Lombardie, 1er tableau d'Antoine Correge. Peint par Antoine Corrége. Gravé par J. Couché ... Extensive lettering in French underneath the print describes the original painting as a sketch executed by Correggio as a shop sign and as subsequently belonging to the queen of Sweden

Not found in: Marcel Roux, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome V, Paris 1946 (inventory of engravings by J. Couché up to 1800)

Not found in: Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome V, Paris 1949, p. 229 (inventory of engravings by J. Couché after 1800)

Wellcome Collection 42271i