Virtue victorious over Vice

Details

MASTER FP (ACTIVE EARLY 16TH CENTURY) AFTER PARMIGIANINO (1503-1540)
Virtue victorious over Vice
etching, circa 1525-50, on laid paper, without watermark, a very good impression of this rare print, printing with much tone, vertical wiping marks and inky plate edges, trimmed just outside the borderline, with thread margins in places, with a horizontal central crease, a thin spot with associated paper split at upper right corner; with Fortitude, by the same hand, etching, circa 1525-50, on laid paper, with an unidentified watermark fragment, a later impression; Woman examining an armillary Sphere, by the same hand, etching, circa 1525-50, on laid paper, a later impression; An Apostle, by an anonymous etcher after Parmigianino; and four etchings by Angelo Falconetto (1507-1567) after Parmigianino, including Saint James Minor (B. 3), two impressions of Saint Matthew (B. 4) and Standing Woman in Roman Dress (B. 8)
Plate & Sheet 104 x 78 mm. (B. 17) (and similar)
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Provenance

Prosper Henry Lankrink (1628-1692), London (Lugt 2090); possibly his posthumous sales, London, 1693 or 1694. (B. 17)
Franz Rechberger (1771-1843), Vienna (Lugt 2133). (Anonymous)
Richard Ford, 1826, according to an ink inscription verso. (Anonymous)

Literature

Bartsch 17; 14; 20

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Catherine Jenkins, London, for her advice on Angelo Falconetto. She points out that the two Apostles and the Standing Woman were printed from the same plate. An impression of all three figures is in the Bibliothèque National, Paris. Bartsch erroneously attributed these prints to Angelo Falcone, a different artist altogether.

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