Double portrait of Lodovico Ariosto and Jacopo Sannazaro

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School of Marcantonio Raimondi (1480-1534)
Double portrait of Lodovico Ariosto and Jacopo Sannazaro
engraving, circa 1520-1550, on laid paper, a fine impression of these two very rare portraits printed from one plate, presumably before the plate was divided, with margins; with School of Marcantonio Raimondi, A Twisted Column (Passavant VI 151), engraving, on laid paper; and Giulio Bonasone (?) (1498-1574), Screaming Mask, engraving, with margins; all fine impressions, laid down at the sheet edges onto card mounts, generally in good condition
P. 226 x 325 mm., S. 271 x 368 mm.
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Provenance

P. Mariette II, dated 1669 (1634-1716), Paris his ink inscription recto, (L. 1789). (Mask)

Literature

Passavant VI, 161 & 162

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Lot Essay

The erasures in the text border suggest that there may have been an even earlier state, although no impression appears to have survived. A trimmed impression of Ariosto in the British Museum maybe of an earlier state before text. Passavant assumes the two portraits were printed from separate plates and recorded one impression respectively in Frankfurt am Main and at Wolfegg.

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