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MASTER FG (ITALIAN, ACTIVE MID-16TH CENTURY) AFTER FRANCESCO PRIMATICCIO (1504-1570)

Alexander welcoming Thalestris and the Amazons

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MASTER FG (ITALIAN, ACTIVE MID-16TH CENTURY) AFTER FRANCESCO PRIMATICCIO (1504-1570)
Alexander welcoming Thalestris and the Amazons
engraving, circa 1540-50, on laid paper, with an indistinct circle watermark, a very good, dark but probably later impression, the second, final state, trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline on all sides, fractionally into the subject at upper right, the sheet thinly backed, otherwise in very good condition
Sheet 242 x 242 mm.

Provenance

The Dukes of Devonshire, Chatsworth; their sale Christie's, London, Old Master Prints from Chatsworth, 5 December 1985, lot 106 (£ 3,000).
A Family Collection, USA; acquired at the above sale.

Literature

Bartsch 3

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Lot Essay

The present engraving relates to a drawing by Primaticcio (Louvre, inv, no. 8572), as well as to a lost fresco in Fontainebleau, as part of a series on the life of Alexander the Great, in the chamber of the duchesse Anne de Pisseleu. It was presumably the drawing that served as a model for the print by the unidentified engraver with the initials FG.

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