Lot Essay
The engraving is based on Rosso's painting for the Galerie François I at Fontainebleau of circa 1535-40. Another contemporary, etched version of the same subject exists by the anonymous Master IQV.
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The Catanian Twins (Amphinomos and Anapias carrying their Parents from the City of Catania)
Details
RENÉ BOYVIN (CIRCA 1525 - CIRCA 1625) AFTER ROSSO FIORENTINO (1494-1540)
The Catanian Twins (Amphinomos and Anapias carrying their Parents from the City of Catania)
engraving, circa 1545-1555, on laid paper, watermark Bunch of Grapes and an indistinct countermark, a good impression of the first state (of two) of this rare print, beginning to show some oxidation marks in the plate at upper right but before the publisher Augustin Quesnel's address, trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline, a vertical printer's crease across the right, in very good condition
Sheet 435 x 319 mm.
The Catanian Twins (Amphinomos and Anapias carrying their Parents from the City of Catania)
engraving, circa 1545-1555, on laid paper, watermark Bunch of Grapes and an indistinct countermark, a good impression of the first state (of two) of this rare print, beginning to show some oxidation marks in the plate at upper right but before the publisher Augustin Quesnel's address, trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline, a vertical printer's crease across the right, in very good condition
Sheet 435 x 319 mm.
Literature
Le Blanc 178; Robert-Dumesnil 17