Portrait of Aloisio Mocenigo
| Reference: | S37811 |
| Author | Marco Alvise PITTERI |
| Year: | 1763 ca. |
| Measures: | 393 x 530 mm |
€750.00
| Reference: | S37811 |
| Author | Marco Alvise PITTERI |
| Year: | 1763 ca. |
| Measures: | 393 x 530 mm |
€750.00
Description
Etching, 1763, lower left “Nazarius Nazarii pinxit”; lower right “Marcus Pitteri sculpsit”. In the lower margin: “Aloysius Monenicus Venetiarum Dux CXIX/ Suae Gentis VII, assumptus XIII Kal. Maij Anni MDCCLXVIII”. After a painting by Nazario Nazari.
Good example, applied on eigheteenth-century paper, trimmed at margins, in very good condition.
Alvise IV Mocenigo was the eleven hundredth Doge of the Serenissima, the seventh doge of the Mocenigo family, from 19 April 1763 to his death in 1778.
To commemorate the celebrations of his election, Lodovico Furlanetto commisioned to Canaletto twelve drawings, which were engraved by Giambattista Brustolon, depicting the solemnities of the Doges, which Francesco Guardi and other artists will repropose in paintings.
At lower left an unidentified collection mark, Lugt 4159
Marco Alvise PITTERI (1702 - 1786)
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Was an Italian engraver of the late-Baroque period in his native Venice. He made densely incised, with nearly photographic quality shading, engraved portraits. He is said to have trained under Giovanni Antonio Faldoni, and engraved in the style of Mellan. He engraved a drawing of ‘’St. Phillip’’by Piazzetta, in whose studio he worked. He had as one of his pupils Giovanni Domenico Lorenzi.
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Marco Alvise PITTERI (1702 - 1786)
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Was an Italian engraver of the late-Baroque period in his native Venice. He made densely incised, with nearly photographic quality shading, engraved portraits. He is said to have trained under Giovanni Antonio Faldoni, and engraved in the style of Mellan. He engraved a drawing of ‘’St. Phillip’’by Piazzetta, in whose studio he worked. He had as one of his pupils Giovanni Domenico Lorenzi.
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