Valentin Lefebre

Valentin Lefebre was born in Brussels in 1637,[1] or around 1642.[2] He died in 1677,[1] or between 1680 and 1682: allegedly in Venice,[2] or in England.[3]

He etched the series Opera selectiora quae Titianus … et Paulus Calliari Veronensis invenerunt et pinxerunt.[2] The collection consists of fifty-three etchings after works by Titian, Paolo Veronese, and Jacopo Tintoretto.[4] The series was first published in Venice by Jacob van Campen in 1682,[lower-alpha 2] and was dedicated to Louis XIV.[4] 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.[1][2]

In the church of Santa Giustina in Padua is his painting of Saint Maurus with angels (1688).[2]

• 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.
• "Lefebvre, Valentin". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
• "Valentin Lefebre". British Museum. Retrieved 12 October 2022.

• Ruggeri, Ugo (2001). Valentin Lefèvre dipinti, disegni, incisioni. Manerba, Italy: Merigo Art Books.
• Villot, Frédéric (1844). "Valentin Lefebre, peintre et graveur à l'eau-forte". Le Cabinet de l'amateur et de l'antiquaire, 3: pp. 169–197.