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Lot Essay
This large etching depicts a part of Giulio Romano's fresco after compositions by Raphael in the Sala di Costantino at the Vatican. It has been variously attributed to Orazio Farinati, Angiolo Falconetto and Battista dell'Angolo del Moro, but an attribution to Battista's son Marco seems most convincing.
The present impression of this very rare print comes from an album assembled around 1568 by Johan Georg Zobel, a Southern German prelate, who had studied and travelled widely in Italy, and was later elected Prince-Bishop of Bamberg. The Rijksmuseum acquired a large group of prints from this album after it had been disassembled by a German bookseller in 1999, and was able to reconstruct the original contents of the album, an important document of early print-collecting. This print is listed in Joyce Zelen's reconstruction of the album as Folio 2, with an accurate description of the mounting sheets, it's whereabouts at the time unknown. (See J. Zelen, 'The Venetian Print Album of Johann Georg I Zobel von Giebelstadt', in: The Rijksmuseum Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 1, 2015, p. 2-51.)
The present impression of this very rare print comes from an album assembled around 1568 by Johan Georg Zobel, a Southern German prelate, who had studied and travelled widely in Italy, and was later elected Prince-Bishop of Bamberg. The Rijksmuseum acquired a large group of prints from this album after it had been disassembled by a German bookseller in 1999, and was able to reconstruct the original contents of the album, an important document of early print-collecting. This print is listed in Joyce Zelen's reconstruction of the album as Folio 2, with an accurate description of the mounting sheets, it's whereabouts at the time unknown. (See J. Zelen, 'The Venetian Print Album of Johann Georg I Zobel von Giebelstadt', in: The Rijksmuseum Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 1, 2015, p. 2-51.)