ANONYMOUS ITALIAN (MID-16TH CENTURY) AFTER MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475-1564)

Lot 49
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Lot 49 | ANONYMOUS ITALIAN (MID-16TH CENTURY) AFTER MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475-1564)
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$ 1 500 – 2 500
ANONYMOUS ITALIAN (MID-16TH CENTURY) AFTER MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475-1564)

Tityus

engraving, 1543, on laid paper, watermark Greek Cross in Quatrefoil surmounted by a Star (not in Briquet nor Woodward), a fine and atmospheric impression of the first state (of three), printing with plate tone and very pronounced wiping marks, mainly in the sky and ground, trimmed to or just outside the borderline, with some minor defects and repairs, generally in good condition

Sheet 291 x 423 mm.





Provenance

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), London (without mark, according to an inscription verso).

Sotheby's, London, 8 November 2001, lot 42.

Eric G. Stanley (1913-2018), Oxford; acquired at the above sale.



Literature

Bartsch 39 (copy); Robert-Dumesnil 33 (copy); Bianchi 33 (copy B.I)

See B. Barnes, Michelangelo in Print: Reproductions as Response in the Sixteenth Century, 2010, p. 196, nr. 84, copy A (another impression illustrated).

See A. Alberti, A. Rovetta, C. Salsi (eds.), D'après Michelangelo: La fortuna dei disegni per gli amici nelle arti del Cinquecento, Venice, 2015, pp. 128-198, nr. 227 (another impression illustrated).
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