France, circa 1545.
While Henry VIII burned monastic libraries in England, his contemporary, King Francis I, imported Italian Renaissance artists, including Leonardo Da Vinci, into France. The creator of the original of this nude is unknown; his pseudonym, Just de Just, was deduced from the study of the spontaneous and experimental arrangement of nudes in another engraving. Never printed until this century, the plates were discovered unused during renovations at Fontainbleu.

Limited edition (250, 2ed.) linoleum block print.