Presentation at the Temple
| Reference: | S31304 |
| Author | Georges Reverdy [Giorgio Reverdino] |
| Year: | 1535 ca. |
| Measures: | 323 x 275 mm |
€3,500.00
| Reference: | S31304 |
| Author | Georges Reverdy [Giorgio Reverdino] |
| Year: | 1535 ca. |
| Measures: | 323 x 275 mm |
€3,500.00
Description
Engraving, 1535-40 circa, unlettered. After Giulio Romano
A very good impression, printed with tone on contemporary laid paper, trimmed close to the platemark, very good condition.
This etching reproduces a tapestry from a twelve-piece set of the Life of Christ, known as the Scuola Nuova to distinguish it from Raphael’s earlier Acts of the Apostles, which was called the Scuola Vecchia.
The tapestries appear to have been designed by Raphael’s erst-while assistans after the death of the master in April 1520. Today in Vatican Collection.
The set was woven by Pieter van Aelst in Bruxelles.
The design of the Presentation is attributed to Giulio Romano. This etching was formerly attributed to Georger Reverdy, but Leutrat rejected this attribution.
A very rare work.
Literature
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Baudi di Vesme 1938 14
Leutrat 2007 4 (rejected attribution)
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Georges Reverdy [Giorgio Reverdino] (Attivo 1529 – 1557)
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Giorgio Reverdino (also known with the French name of Georges Reverdy) was an artist of Italian origin and particularly active in France. A painter and especially a copperplate engraver and xylographer, mistakenly believed to be of Venetian, Paduan, Bolognese, or French origin, he was also called Cesare or Gaspare. Probably born in Piedmont, in Chivasso, he perhaps learned the practice of engraving in Rome, at the workshop of Marcantonio Raimondi. From 1528 to his death, he was active in Lyon, where he left a series of woodcuts for books and engravings with burin, many of them signed or monogrammed, of uneven quality.
Scholars have always been divided on the origin of this particular artist; the fact that Reverdy was originally from Piedmont is certified in the essay by Alessandro Baudi di Vesme, who points out that as early as the Premier volume de la Bibliotheque du sieur de la Croix du Maine, published in Paris in 1584 and dedicated to Henry III, King of France, we read, “Georges Reverdy Piedmontois, excellent graveur au burin.. florissait à Lyon l'an 1555”. Again, Baudi di Vesme points out that Chivasso was the probable city of origin of Reverdy.
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Literature
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Baudi di Vesme 1938 14
Leutrat 2007 4 (rejected attribution)
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Georges Reverdy [Giorgio Reverdino] (Attivo 1529 – 1557)
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Giorgio Reverdino (also known with the French name of Georges Reverdy) was an artist of Italian origin and particularly active in France. A painter and especially a copperplate engraver and xylographer, mistakenly believed to be of Venetian, Paduan, Bolognese, or French origin, he was also called Cesare or Gaspare. Probably born in Piedmont, in Chivasso, he perhaps learned the practice of engraving in Rome, at the workshop of Marcantonio Raimondi. From 1528 to his death, he was active in Lyon, where he left a series of woodcuts for books and engravings with burin, many of them signed or monogrammed, of uneven quality.
Scholars have always been divided on the origin of this particular artist; the fact that Reverdy was originally from Piedmont is certified in the essay by Alessandro Baudi di Vesme, who points out that as early as the Premier volume de la Bibliotheque du sieur de la Croix du Maine, published in Paris in 1584 and dedicated to Henry III, King of France, we read, “Georges Reverdy Piedmontois, excellent graveur au burin.. florissait à Lyon l'an 1555”. Again, Baudi di Vesme points out that Chivasso was the probable city of origin of Reverdy.
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