Benoit AUDRAN (Lyon 1661 - Sens 1721) “David and Goliath” Two original etchings dating from 1716 and 1717, from a subject by Daniele Ricciarelli known as Daniele da Volterra (Volterra 1509ca - Rome 1566) interpreted in the two different facades and considered at the time of Michelangelo Buonarroti's engraving as stated in the dedicatory. Beautiful copies in the second state of two with the address of the publishers Le Pere and Vaulée (Avaulez) active between 1772 and 1777 and without the dates appearing in the first state, printed on eighteenth-century laid paper, trimmed slightly inside the imprint of the slab and glued to the corners to a very thick collection sheet on which there are red pencil markings, slightly burnished and with small defects on the edges but overall in excellent general condition. Ricciarelli painted the episode of the Book of the Kings between 1550 and 1555 for the Florentine scholar Giovanni della Casa (1503 - 1556) on both sides of a large slate table of 133 x 172cm, in preparation for the work he had also been made a terracotta sketch that is now lost while the painting, which was donated by the Apostolic Chamber to Louis XIV in 1715 and placed in a magnificent frame supported by a revolving pedestal that allowed the enjoyment of both sides, is part of the collections of the Louvre. Bibliography: LeBlanc "Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes" Paris 1854 vol.1 p. 73 n ° 26 and 27. Roux "Inventaire du Fonds Francais - Dix-Huitième siecle" Paris 1931 volume I p. 225 n ° 24 and 25. Measurements in mm: 360ca x 420ca sheets