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Among the recent acquisitions we present here, we would like to single out a few scarce and important prints. Some are impressions of very rare states, such as Dido’s Suicide by Hans Sebald BEHAM - a wonderful impression of the first state before reduction of the plate - or A Sacrifice by Léon DAVENT - 1st state of 3, also before reduction of the plate. Some are known only by a very small number of impressions: the portrait of Henri II, King of France, by Jan Cornelisz. VERMEYEN (1500 - 1559) was previously known from only two impressions, both held at the Rijksmuseum. The Allegory on the …