NICOLAS BEATRIZET (1507/15 - CIRCA 1565) AFTER MARCO DENTE, CALLED MARCO DA RAVENNA (CIRCA 1486-1527) AFTER BACCIO BANDINELLI (CIRCA 1488-1560)

The Massacre of the Innocents

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NICOLAS BEATRIZET (1507/15 - CIRCA 1565) AFTER MARCO DENTE, CALLED MARCO DA RAVENNA (CIRCA 1486-1527) AFTER BACCIO BANDINELLI (CIRCA 1488-1560)
The Massacre of the Innocents
engraving, circa 1540-65, on laid paper, a very good impression of this very rare, large print, trimmed to or just fractionally inside the subject, the sheet laid down onto an 18th century sheet, a small hole at the upper left corner, a tear at lower centre, another further left, some very minor foxing, generally in good condition
Sheet 405 x 573 mm.

Provenance

Giancarlo Beltrame (1925-2011), Vicenza; then by descent to the present owners.

Literature

Bartsch XIV. 24.21

Lot Essay

The inscription at the lower left of this large and very ambitious print leaves little doubt that the composition goes back to or was associated with the great Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli.

There is however some confusion in the literature in regard to the distinction between Marco Dente's original engraving and the slightly later copy by Nicholas Beatrizet. Direct comparison of the present impression with the unfinished proof by Marco Dente has revealed this to be indeed the copy by Beatrizet, differing only in minute detail from the slightly earlier version.

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