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Je l'entens, je le crois, mais ce n'est qu'à demi, / Ce brillant Capitaine et tout son beau Langage [...]
C.P. Rottari pinx: L. Zucchi sc: [n.d., c.1750]
Engraving, sheet 235 x 170mm (9¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
Portrait of a woman, with verses below seeming to indicate the subject's uncertainty about romantic overtures made to her. After Pietro Rotari (1707-62), painter of portraits and religious subjects. Afte spending the first part of his career in Italy, in the 1750s Rotari moved north, working in Vienna, Dresden and finally St Petersburg.
[Ref: 37107] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
In ischietto vestir Leggiadra restra / Tasso.
C.P. Rottari pinx: L. Zucchi sc: [n.d., c.1750]
Engraving, sheet 235 x 170mm (9¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Portrait of a woman with line from Torquato Tasso's 'La Gerusalemme liberata' ('Jerusalem Liberated'), a popular source in the 18th century. After Pietro Rotari (1707-62), painter of portraits and religious subjects. Afte spending the first part of his career in Italy, in the 1750s Rotari moved north, working in Vienna, Dresden and finally St Petersburg.
[Ref: 37106] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
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