GRABADOS ARENBERG 19.10.2019

Gravures anciennes – Oude prenten
by the Master of the Grüninger Workshop. - Final folio (f. 787) of Leonard Fuch’s
De Historia Stirpium, Basel 1542, with hand-coloured woodcut portraits of the
artist Heinrich Füllmaurer and the woodblock cutters Albertus Neher and Veit
Rudolf Speckle.
334 [Italian]
De Arte bene Moriendi. Venice, Johannes Baptista Sessa, 1503.
Woodcut, 14 x 10,9 cm, laid paper, wide margin, unsigned. Loose sheet.
400 / 500 €
Fontainebeau moved to Rome where he was trained by Giorgio Ghisi. From 1540
to 1560 he produced reproductive engravings under direction of Michelangelo,
succeeding Marcantonio.
336 [Italian]
BRIL, Paul - Riverlandscape with a shepherd on a hill to the
right. Rome, V. Cenci, c. 1590.
Engraving, 20,8 x 27,5 cm (with wide margins). Stuck by upper corners under
passe-partout.
200 / 250 €
View of the coast of Campania, 4th state published in Rome by Vincenzo Cenci.
Ref. Hollstein III: 2.
Very rare Venetian print with the religious theme of Ars Moriendi, popularised
by the end of the fifteenth century. The print shows a dying man on his death
bed, where he is accompanied by two angels, the Holy Trinity and St Anthony. At
the lower edge, the condemned are eaten by a hellish demon. Three banderoles
read «SIS.HVMILIS.SVPERBVS.PVNIO.VICTVS.SVM». The scene is framed by
a decorative border with foliage. On verso a section of the text of Ars Moriendi
in Italian. The woodcut originates from a 1503 edition of De Arte bene Moriendi,
published by Sessa.
337 [Italian]
CORT, Cornelis. After Girolamo MUZIANO - St Francis
receives the stigmata in the wilderness. Rome, A. Lafreri; I.
Orlandi, 1567; 1602.
Engraving, 42 x 54 cm, signed «C. Cort. f.» and «Ioannis Orlandi formis Roma»
(wide margins, sl. spotted, centerfold, 2 small perforations). Stuck by corners
under passe-partout.
200 / 250 €
335 [Italian]
BEATRIZET, Nicolas - Death of Abel. Rome, 1530-1560.
Engraving, 35,2 x 26,5 cm, laid paper (sl. toned, trimmed at plate borders, text in
lower margin cut off). Stuck by corners under passe-partout.
200 / 300 €
Scenic landscape with cascading waterfalls functioning as the topographic
setting for this religious subject. Later edition by Orlandi after Lafreri’s first
edition in 1567.
Ref. New Hollstein (Cornelis Cort), 109.IV.
Print capturing the moment when Adam and Eve discover the gruesome death of
their son Abel, by the hand of his brother Cain. The killing itself and the sacrifices
to God can be seen in the background. The engraving has been attributed to
the French printmaker Nicolas Beatrizet (1515-1566) who, after working at
338 [Italian]
della BELLA, Stefano - Various Military Caprices.
6 engravings, 6,5 x 12,5 cm (trimmed on the plate mark). All stuck by upper
corners under 1 passe-partout.
100 / 150 €
6 from a series of 12 military scenes after Stefano della Bella (1610-1664).
Mirrored copy of the «Varii Capricii Militari» editions published by Israël Henriet
(1590-1661) or by Francois Langlois dit Ciartres (1588-1647).
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