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[Autumn] 8 Alta 12 Lata
J. Bassan p. I. Troyen f. [c.1660]
Etching, platemark 210 x 300mm (8¼ x 11¾"). Large tear upper right.
Autumn scene, with cooper making barrels on right and grapes being picked and pressed. One of a set of scenes representing the four seasons, etched by Jan van Troyen (c.1610-66) after paintings by the Italian artist Francesco Bassano (1549-92) (the painting is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna). These etchings were published in the 'Theatrum Pictorum' ('Theatre of Pictures') assembled by the Flemish artist David Teniers, a large volume of prints after Italian paintings then owned by the Habsburg Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (for whom Teniers worked as court painter).
[Ref: 45270] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[The Good Samaritan] 4 Alta 6 Lata
J. Bassan p. Q. Boel f. [c.1660]
Etching, platemark 165 x 230mm (6½ x 9"). Paper tone.
The Good Samaritan dresses the wounds of a man lying injured on the ground (robbers in the woods to right). Etched by Jan van Troyen (c.1610-66) after a painting by the Italian artist Francesco Bassano (1549-92) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (other version in the Courtauld Gallery, London and the Metropolitian Museum of Art, New York). Published in the 'Theatrum Pictorum' ('Theatre of Pictures') assembled by the Flemish artist David Teniers, a large volume of prints after Italian paintings then owned by the Habsburg Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (for whom Teniers worked as court painter).
[Ref: 45271] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
[The Pope and the Doge in Venice.] Prima che monti il Doge Ziani la Falera....
Appo. Teodoro Viero Venezia [Venice, n.d., c.1770s].
Large and impressive engraving on laid paper, 380 x 505mm. 15 x 20". A good impression, with wide margins. Slight crease on left.
An historical scene in Piazza San Marco (St. Mark's Square), medieval Venice. Pietro Ziani (died 1230), the forty-second Doge of Venice from 1205 to 1229, receives a Papal blessing (in the form of a sword) prior to setting out in his barge on an expedition. In his youth a sailor, Ziani commanded a flotilla escorting the emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1177, and took part in the Fourth Crusade and sacking of Constantinople. Numbered '5' lower left, and '66' lower right; from a series by Teodoro Viero (1740 - 1819), engraver and publisher in Venice. After a fresco by Francesco Bassano (1549 - 1592) in the Grand Council chamber of the Palazzo Ducale, Venice. From Broadlands home of Palmerston family.
[Ref: 27560] £280.00
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