GIORGIO GHISI (1520-1582) AFTER PERINO DEL VAGA (1501-1547) - photo 1

GIORGIO GHISI (1520-1582) AFTER PERINO DEL VAGA (1501-1547)

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24.01.2023 14:00UTC -04:00
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ID 887574
Lot 52 | GIORGIO GHISI (1520-1582) AFTER PERINO DEL VAGA (1501-1547)
GIORGIO GHISI (1520-1582) AFTER PERINO DEL VAGA (1501-1547)

Venus and Vulcan at the Forge

engraving, mid-1550s, on laid paper, proprietary watermark P. PRICARD in a Shield with Flower and Letter B (Briquet 9613, L. & L. 44), a very fine, early impression of the rare first state (of four), before the publisher's address, printing with intense contrasts and remarkable sculptural quality, with touches of burr on Vulcan's body and near the monogram, trimmed just outside the subject, a few small repairs and minor defects

Sheet 190 x 313 mm.





Provenance

Pierre Mariette II (1634-1716), Paris (Lugt 1789), dated 1674.

Albertina, Vienna , with their duplicate stamp (Lugt 5g); probably their sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 25-27 May 1925, lot 643 (with others, 'Eine schöne und reiche Sammlung. Drei Blätter mit Mariettes Signatur').

A Family Collection, USA; probably acquired at Bassenge, Berlin, in 1979.



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