Series of fifteen printed illustrations, engraved by Edmond Charpy and printed by Thomas de Leu, used to illustrate the book Passion del Hombre‑Dios: referida y ponderada en décimas españolas / por el maestro Iuan Dávila, written by the Madrid Jesuit Juan Bautista Dávila and published in Lyon in 1661 with the financial support of Horacio Boissat, Gorge Remeus, Claudio Bourgeat, and Miguel Lietard. Thomas de Leu, a Flemish engraver who later settled in Paris, died in 1612, making it plausible that some of his copper plates were transferred to Lyon and may have been used to print illustrations for the Passion del Hombre-Dios. De Leu's signature appears on three prints in this album (PK.OPB.0256.02; PK.OPB.0256.03; PK.OPB.0256.07). Additional illustrations may subsequently have been added in Lyon, bringing the total number of engravings in the publication to seventeen. Beyond the signed prints, however, it remains unclear whether any of the remaining impressions were printed from De Leu's original copper plates. Of the seventeen engravings known to have formed part of the publication, only fifteen are preserved in the present album. With the exception of the title page, the prints in the series are reversed copies after prints invented by Maerten de Vos and Jan van der Straet. The final print of the series, however, reproduces its model in the same orientation.
