Saint Joseph and Jesus
| Reference: | S46641 |
| Author | Francesco BARTOLOZZI |
| Year: | 1764 |
| Measures: | 295 x 405 mm |
€500.00
| Reference: | S46641 |
| Author | Francesco BARTOLOZZI |
| Year: | 1764 |
| Measures: | 295 x 405 mm |
€500.00
Description
St Joseph seated at centre the Christ Child standing on a stone, holding an apple in right hand and a staff in the left, after Guercino.
Etching in black and brown, 1764, lettered along the bottom: 'Guercino da Cento inv./Fr. Bartolozzi sculps./ Ex collectione D. Ioseph Smith Venetys.'
From the series “Raccolta di alcuni disegni del Barberi da Cento detto il Guercino…”.
The drawing upon which this print is based was in the collection of Joseph Smith.
This unusual series of engravings after drawings by Guercino, Pier Leone Ghezzi and others, is the result of an editorial initiative of Piranesi. The idea of the volume must be created by the purchase of plates that Bartolozzi performed in Venetian and Bologna collections before leaving Italy for London. Piranesi, expanding the project, added other plates that commissioned to engravers like Giovanni Ottaviani and Jacques Nevay.
The work was realized in Rome translate into engravings the original drawings own by members of the Accademia of San Luca. Probably then the individual engravings were assembled on demand of the buyer, as evidenced by the fact that each collection is different from the other for number of plates. The corpus consists of the graphic engravings by Bartolozzi, which reproduce the original drawings from the collection of Joseph Smith, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and the Count Antonio Maria Zanetti.
A fine impression on contemporary laid paper, full margins, good condition.
Bibliografia
Calabi & De Vesme 1928 / Francesco Bartolozzi. Catalogue des estampes et notice biographique d'après les manuscrits de A. De Vesme entièrement réformés et complétés d'une étude critique par A. Calabi (2114).
Francesco BARTOLOZZI (Firenze, 1727; Lisbona, 7 Marzo 1815)
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Printmaker, draughtsman and painter, active also in England. He was the son of Gaetano Bartolozzi, a goldsmith, with whom he trained before entering the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. There he studied under Giovanni Domenico Ferretti and Ignazio Hugford. He also extended his knowledge of the Antique with a short trip to Rome. He is said to have become an adept painter of miniatures, watercolours and pastels, and an accomplished draughtsman; but he soon concentrated on engraving. Works identified as from his Florentine period include the series of plates after Domenichino’s frescoes in the abbey of Grottaferrata and those of religious paintings by Anton Domenico Gabbiani.
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Francesco BARTOLOZZI (Firenze, 1727; Lisbona, 7 Marzo 1815)
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Printmaker, draughtsman and painter, active also in England. He was the son of Gaetano Bartolozzi, a goldsmith, with whom he trained before entering the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. There he studied under Giovanni Domenico Ferretti and Ignazio Hugford. He also extended his knowledge of the Antique with a short trip to Rome. He is said to have become an adept painter of miniatures, watercolours and pastels, and an accomplished draughtsman; but he soon concentrated on engraving. Works identified as from his Florentine period include the series of plates after Domenichino’s frescoes in the abbey of Grottaferrata and those of religious paintings by Anton Domenico Gabbiani.
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