Francesco Brizio (1575-1623)

細節
Francesco Brizio (1575-1623)

A Design for the Coat of Arms of Cardinal Bianchetti

inscribed 'ASSURGO HIS RADUS VLINAM NUNC PIPIO' and with inscription 'Lodovico Cor: lo scudo'; red and black chalk, pen and grey ink, grey wash heightened with white (oxidized), the outlines incised 215 x 296mm.; and seven other drawings by Italian 16th Century hands, including two sheets formerly attributed to Cambiaso, from the Cosway and van Haecken collections respectively (8)
來源
(1) Pseudo-Crozat (L. 474), his associated lot number 'Lot 606' (?) (verso).
(1) Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 28 November 1977, lot 162 (£110).
出版
E. Hermann-Atorino, Francesco Brizio, Worms, 1989, no. Z3, fig. 85.
刻印
In the same direction by Brizio (G. Gaeta Bertalà, Incisori bolognese ed emiliani del sec. XVII, Bologna, 1973, no. 50, illustrated).

拍品專文

The inscription on the print credits Ludovico Carracci as the inventor of the composition. A terminus post quem for this composition is 1592, the year Lorenzo Bianchetti became Cardinal.