SEVEN COPPERPLATE ENGRAVINGS OF ARTISTS FROM ‘SERIE DI RITRATTI DEGLI ECCELLENTI PITTORI DI PROPRIA MANO’

SEVEN COPPERPLATE ENGRAVINGS OF ARTISTS FROM  - SERIES OF PORTRAITS OF EXCELLENT PAINTERS PAINTED BY THERE OWN HAND.

This formed part of the celebrated Museum Florentinum.

Published in: Florence, Italy, between 1752 and 1762

Publisher / Author: Francesco Moücke and Anton Francesco Gori

Designers & Engravers: Drawn primarily by Giovanni Domenico Campiglia after self-portraits housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and engraved by artists such as Antonio Pazzi, Carlo Gregori, and Gennaro Corsi.

Each print depicts a famous Italian Renaissance or Mannerist/Baroque artist (with their Latinised name and profession, e.g., PICTOR for painter):

Top Center: Cherubino Alberti (Cherubino Alberti, painter & engraver)

Middle Row (Left to Right): Lattanzio Gambara (Lattanzio Gambara, painter) Lavinia Fontana (Lavinia Fontana, famous female Renaissance painter) Jacopo Palma / Palma il Giovane (Iacobi Palma, Jacopo Palma the Younger)

Bottom Row (Left to Right): Gaetano Preti / Gaetano Greppi (Gretanus Greppi Pictor). Andrea Boscoli (Andrea Boscoli, Florentine painter). Cristofano Allori (Cristofano Allori, Prato, Florentine Baroque painter)

Each print mounted in matching dark wooden frames with age patina and old glass, enhancing their antique character.

Good antique condition. Some light paper toning and very minimal light foxing consistent with age. Original wooden frames and glass.

A rare and elegant collection perfectly suited to art historians and collectors of Old Masters.

Measuring:                                                                                  Framed: 6.25” × 4.75”                                                                     Visible engraving : 4.75” × 3.25”

Price: £720