GRABADOS ARENBERG 19.10.2019

Oude prenten – Gravures anciennes
339 [Italian]
FACCINI, Pietro - St Francis receiving Christ. Bologna, [1582-
1602].
Etching, 34,2 x 25 cm, laid paper, unsigned (sl. toned, small stains, sl. foxing,
trimmed to plate mark). Mounted on mod. paper.
100 / 150 €
St Francis holding the infant Christ Child gazing at the Virgin who appears in
the upper left. The head of a monk is depicted at the lower right. Only state of
print by the Bolognese painter and printmaker Pietro Faccini (1562-1602), after a
painting made by the artist for the church of the Capucins in Bologna.
Ref. Bartsch XVIII:272.1
340 [Italian]
Holy Family.
Engraving, 13,4 x 18,7 cm (trimmed on the border). Stuck by corners under passepartout.
200 / 250 €
«Frescoes and Oil Paintings at Florence» by the Florentine engraver Carlo
Lasinio comprises a series of ornament prints, drawn after the most famous
Renaissance frescoes from various buildings in Florence. Originally, these were
designed by the most famous artists of the early and later Renaissance: Cosimo
Feltrini, Michelangelo, Giovanni da Udine, Bernardino Poccetti and Benedetto
da Rovezzano.
Ref. Jessen, Der Ornamentstich 163, 328.
Prov. Auguste Schoy (1838-1885), L. 64.
From the first woman who signed her full name
on a print!
Very rare print featuring the Virgin seated with child embracing her and with
Joseph reading a book. Although the representation of Joseph ressembles that
of Guido Reni’s Holy Family, we could not identify this copy with any other.
Ref. Not in Bartsch.
341 [Italian]
LASINIO, Carlo - Ornati presi da graffiti e pitture antiche
esistenti in Firenze disegnati ed incisi in 40 rami [...]. Firenze, N.
Pagni and G. Bardi, 1789.
Fol.: 35 (of 40) engr., mounted (missing pl.: 4, 5, 21, 28 and 29, sl. wear, collector’s
mark on every pl., pl. 10 and 23: trimmed to the lower platemark with repaired
tear in pl. 10, marginal stain on pl. 30). Contemp. threequarter cloth, marbled
paper covers, gilt title on spine (edges rubbed).
700 / 800 €
342 [Italian]
MANTOVANA, Diana or GHISI, Diana (b. 1535). After
GIULIO ROMANO - Cupid and Psyche in a basin, washed and
dressed by putti. Rome, 1575.
Engraving, 29,5 x 37,5 cm (trimmed just outside the borderline, edges
«strenghtened» on verso, pencil sketching on verso). Stuck by left margin under
passe-partout.
1.100 / 1.300 €
Very fine dark impression of the left part of the «Marriage of Cupid and Psyche»,
a composition of three plates engraved by the daughter of Giovanni Battista
Ghisi. Her work reflects the changing Renaissance climate when female
artists were gradually provided greater opportunities. Not having any formal
apprenticeship, Diana used the work of Giulio Romano as a source of inspiration,
hence this engraving after Romano’s fresco in the «Camera di Amore e Psyche»
of the Palazzo del Te in Mantua. Although she most often signed her work
«Diana Mantuana» or «Diana Mantovana» to reference the city in which she
was born, she moved to Rome after her marriage to the aspiring architect
Francesco da Volterra in 1575. With her father as an engraver for the Mantuan
court of the Gonzaga family, she was careful to maintain beneficial patronage
in Mantua after leaving for Rome and dedicated this «Marriage of Cupid and
Psyche» to Claudio Gonzaga. Dated 1 September 1575, it was published only a
few months after she received the Papal Privilege to make and market her own
work on 5 June 1575. Diana was one of the few women artists whom Vasari
praised for her engraving technique in the 1568 edition of his Lives.
Ref. Bartsch (Diane Ghisi) 40.
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