AGOSTINO VENEZIANO (1490-1540)
AGOSTINO VENEZIANO (1490-1540)
AGOSTINO VENEZIANO (1490-1540)
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PROPERTY OF THE LATE PROFESSOR ERIC STANLEY
AGOSTINO VENEZIANO (1490-1540)

Three Engravings of Secular Subjects

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AGOSTINO VENEZIANO (1490-1540)
Three Engravings of Secular Subjects
Two Men at a Cemetery, circa 1510-15, on laid paper, without watermark, a good impression of this very rare early print, printing thinly at lower left;
Two Armies at the Battle of Ravenna, after the Master Na.Dat, 1528, on laid paper, without watermark, a very good impression of this rare print, with some small repairs;
Eros in the Sea, probably after Raphael, circa 1515-1528, on laid paper, watermark Anchor in a Circle, a fine impression, lacking the text border below
Sheet 163 x 221 mm. (B. 234)
Plate 97 x 127 mm., Sheet 98 x 128 mm. (B. 413)
Plate & Sheet 146 x 219 mm. (B. 415)(3)
Provenance
With P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., London; Five Hundred Years of Fine Prints, February - March 1976, no. 39. (Two Men at a Cemetery)
Gregoire Prince Soutzo (19th century), Paris (Lugt 2341); probably his sale, Drouot (Danlos & Delisle), Paris, 17 March 1870, lot 67 (with others).
Alfred Morrison (1821-1897), London and Fonthill, Wiltshire (Lugt 151)
Sotheby's, London, 26 June 1980, lot 300. (Battle of Ravenna)
Eric G. Stanley (1923-2018), Oxford; acquired from the above.
Literature
Bartsch 234, 407, 415

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Lot Essay

Agostino de’ Musi, named Veneziano after the city he grew up in, was one the most prolific engravers of the first half of the 16th century. His career began in Venice in the first quarter of the century, before he moved to Rome join Raphael’s workshop as a pupil of Marcantonio Raimondi. He remained there until the Sack of Rome, then returned to Venice. The present lot comprises three prints which exemplify his stylistic versatility and the different phases of his career as a printmaker. The first is an early and extremely rare print of his Venetian period, deeply influenced by Giorgione, Titian and Giulio Campagnola (see lot 42). Another rare and fascinating print of similar dimensions from this period was offered at Christie's, New York, on 27 January 2017 (lot 76). The second print is a copy in reverse of the Battle of Ravenna, originally engraved by the anonymous Northern Italian engraver known as the Master Na.Dat., while the third print, undoubtedly from Agostino’s Roman period and clearly inspired by Raphael, depicts a maritime scene with the nude figures of Eros and Venus in a very classical style.

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