During the years 1600 — 1630 there was extensive trade between France and Spain. The Spanish economy prospered because of the resources, provided by her overseas colonies in America. Small goods, among which prints, supplemented the cargos that were shipped from Sevilla to the New World. Besides, lots of engravings from France were sold to Spanish tradesmen who supplied the various local markets (Valencia, Sevilla, Madrid, Cordoba, Granada, Barcelona, Valladolid, Saragossa and Toledo). The Parisian print publishers Nicolas Mathoniere, Simon Donget, Jean Le Clerc IV and their fellow publishers regularly closed business deals with Spanish merchants (e.g. Sebastien Carlet, Miquel Rosset, Antoine Sobrier, Barthelemy Liousse). The trade agreement could cover three dozen to no less than 17,000 prints. These large quantities of prints consisted of cheap copies of ‘old-fashioned’ Flemish prints from the end of the 16th century (after Maarten de Vos for example), prints after French or Italian designs, small devot...