Vero e Novo Disegno di Frascati con Tutte le Ville convicine
| Reference: | S35566 |
| Author | Dominique BARRIERE |
| Year: | 1650 ca. |
| Zone: | Frascati |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 577 x 445 mm |
€850.00
| Reference: | S35566 |
| Author | Dominique BARRIERE |
| Year: | 1650 ca. |
| Zone: | Frascati |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 577 x 445 mm |
€850.00
Description
View of the city of Frascati with Villa Aldobrandini, Monte Porzio Catone, Villa Lodovisi, Mondragone etc.
22 descriptive captions. Published in Rome by Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (1627-1691). An active printer and engraver in Rome. Son of Giuseppe De Rossi, who founded the most important printing house of his time which will later be transformed into Calcografia Camerale in the XIX century.
Even is not signed the plate can be ascribed to the hand of Dominique Barriere.
The plate is listed in the catalogue of De Rossi's tipography "Indice delle Stampe De' Rossi" by Lorenzo Filippo (1735) p. 32, n. 5, as "Veduta della Città di Frascati colle sue Ville circonvicine, disegnata, intagliata in acqua forte da Domenico Barriera in foglio imperiale per traverso. Ba. 10".
First ascribed to Barriere by Alfredo Petrucci and than to Anna Grelle Iusco.
Copperplate, some tears percectly repaired, otherwise very good.
Antique ink inscription translate the title and the keys in French. Rare.
Literature
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Petrucci (1934) n. 1241; Grelle Iusco (1996): pp. 204, 407.
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Dominique BARRIERE (Marsiglia, 1618; Roma, 18 Settembre 1678).
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French etcher and architectural designer. He arrived in Rome around 1640 where he settled permanently among its community of French artists. No records exist of his training, but his earliest etchings (1640–47) are historical and mythological scenes, such as the Battle of Bommel in 1585 (1640) after Guglielmo Cortese and Apollo and Python (c. 1647–52) after Domenichino’s painting for the Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati.
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Literature
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Petrucci (1934) n. 1241; Grelle Iusco (1996): pp. 204, 407.
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Dominique BARRIERE (Marsiglia, 1618; Roma, 18 Settembre 1678).
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French etcher and architectural designer. He arrived in Rome around 1640 where he settled permanently among its community of French artists. No records exist of his training, but his earliest etchings (1640–47) are historical and mythological scenes, such as the Battle of Bommel in 1585 (1640) after Guglielmo Cortese and Apollo and Python (c. 1647–52) after Domenichino’s painting for the Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati.
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