The Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John
| Reference: | S30167 |
| Author | Renè BOYVIN |
| Year: | 1550 ca. |
| Measures: | 243 x 191 mm |
€3,500.00
| Reference: | S30167 |
| Author | Renè BOYVIN |
| Year: | 1550 ca. |
| Measures: | 243 x 191 mm |
€3,500.00
Description
Virgin sitting in an interior with child Christ holding a cross on her knees, and St John the Baptist kneeling next to her, his hands joined in prayer.
Etching and engraving, circa 1540/50, without any details.
After Luca Penni or Rosso Fiorentino.
A great impression, printed on contemporary laid paper, trimmed to the platemark, in very good conditions.
The work, very rare, is attributed to Boyvin by Robert-Dumesnil who does not clarify if it derives from a drawing of Penni or Rosso Fiorentino.
Renè Boyvin is a French engraver, etcher and draftsma. Vasari, in his Life of Marcantonio Raimondi, says that “dopo la morte di Rosso [Fiorentino], assistiamo all’arrivo dalla Francia di tutte incisioni dei suoi lavori”. Vasari attributed this abundance of reproductions “all’incisore in rame René”, or René Boyvin.
They moved to Paris in 1545 to about Agers, where he met Antonio Fantuzzi and where it is said to have renewed his contract of service with the engraver Pierre Milan in 1549. Later, he opened his own office where he also worked Lorenzo Penni, son of Luca. Boyvin lived a long time, in spite of the imprisonment to which he was forced to because of its Calvinistic creed.
Literature
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Robert-Dumesnil, Le Peintre-Graveur Français, VIII.20.8.
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Renè BOYVIN (Angers 1525 ca. - Roma 1580 ca.)
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French engraver, etcher and designer. Vasari, in his Vita of Marcantonio Raimondi, mentions that ‘after the death of Rosso [Fiorentino], we saw the arrival from France of all the engravings of his works’. He attributed this upsurge of engraved reproductions ‘to the copperplate engraver René’, that is René Boyvin. He came to Paris c. 1545 from Angers, where he was an associate of the mint. In Paris he might have been in contact with Antonio Fantuzzi, and he is known to have renewed a contract of service with the engraver Pierre Milan in 1549. In 1553 he completed two plates that Milan had failed to finish for the music publisher Guillaume Morlaye (c. 1510–after 1558); one of these was the Nymph of Fontainebleau. He later opened his own workshop, and it is known that Lorenzo Penni, the son of Luca, was working for him in October 1557. Boyvin survived for many years despite the Calvinist beliefs for which he was imprisoned in January 1569. He seems to have published nothing under his own name between 1569 and 1574. His last dated work is from 1580, but it appears that he was still alive well into the 17th century.
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Literature
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Robert-Dumesnil, Le Peintre-Graveur Français, VIII.20.8.
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Renè BOYVIN (Angers 1525 ca. - Roma 1580 ca.)
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French engraver, etcher and designer. Vasari, in his Vita of Marcantonio Raimondi, mentions that ‘after the death of Rosso [Fiorentino], we saw the arrival from France of all the engravings of his works’. He attributed this upsurge of engraved reproductions ‘to the copperplate engraver René’, that is René Boyvin. He came to Paris c. 1545 from Angers, where he was an associate of the mint. In Paris he might have been in contact with Antonio Fantuzzi, and he is known to have renewed a contract of service with the engraver Pierre Milan in 1549. In 1553 he completed two plates that Milan had failed to finish for the music publisher Guillaume Morlaye (c. 1510–after 1558); one of these was the Nymph of Fontainebleau. He later opened his own workshop, and it is known that Lorenzo Penni, the son of Luca, was working for him in October 1557. Boyvin survived for many years despite the Calvinist beliefs for which he was imprisoned in January 1569. He seems to have published nothing under his own name between 1569 and 1574. His last dated work is from 1580, but it appears that he was still alive well into the 17th century.
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