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The Last Judgement
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NICOLAS BEATRIZET (CIRCA 1507-1566) AFTER MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475-1564)
The Last Judgement
engraving
1562
printed from eleven plates on ten joined sheets of laid paper, the artist's oval portrait pasted onto the upper margins
a good, complete example of this very rare, monumental print
Bianchi's fifth, final state, published by Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi, Rome, circa 1657-74
with margins
laid onto 17-18th century, hand-woven canvas
three horizontal and a vertical fold, some moisture stains and surface dirt
generally in good condition
Plate 1203 x 1033 mm. (overall)
Sheet 1297 x 1045 mm.
The Last Judgement
engraving
1562
printed from eleven plates on ten joined sheets of laid paper, the artist's oval portrait pasted onto the upper margins
a good, complete example of this very rare, monumental print
Bianchi's fifth, final state, published by Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi, Rome, circa 1657-74
with margins
laid onto 17-18th century, hand-woven canvas
three horizontal and a vertical fold, some moisture stains and surface dirt
generally in good condition
Plate 1203 x 1033 mm. (overall)
Sheet 1297 x 1045 mm.
Provenance
Presumably an old French collection, inscribed in brown ink Jugement dernier/ de/ Michel Ange on the canvas verso.
Private Collection, USA.
Private Collection, USA.
Literature
Bartsch 37
S. Bianchi, 'Catalogo dell'opera incisa di Nicola Beatrizet', in: Grafica d'Arte, vols. 54-57, Milano, 2003-2005, part II, no. 30, p. 4-5 (vol. 55, July-September 2003) (another impression ill.).
M. Bury, 'Niccolò della Casa's Last Judgement Dissected', in: Print Quarterly, Vol. XXVII, No. 1, March 2010, p. 3-10 (another impression ill.)
B. Barnes, Michelangelo in Print - Reproductions as Response in the Sixteenth Century, London & New York, 2010 (reprint of 2016), p. 99-106 (not ill.).
S. Bianchi, 'Catalogo dell'opera incisa di Nicola Beatrizet', in: Grafica d'Arte, vols. 54-57, Milano, 2003-2005, part II, no. 30, p. 4-5 (vol. 55, July-September 2003) (another impression ill.).
M. Bury, 'Niccolò della Casa's Last Judgement Dissected', in: Print Quarterly, Vol. XXVII, No. 1, March 2010, p. 3-10 (another impression ill.)
B. Barnes, Michelangelo in Print - Reproductions as Response in the Sixteenth Century, London & New York, 2010 (reprint of 2016), p. 99-106 (not ill.).
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