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Francesco BartolozziSet of Two Engravings after Cipriani "Four Muses" & "Father and Two Daughters"1786
1786
About the Item
Artist: Francesco Bartolozzi (Italian, 1727-1815)
Title: "Four Muses" & "Father and Two Daughters"
Portfolio: Rudiments of Drawing
*Issued unsigned, though both are signed by Bartolozzi in the plate (printed signature) lower right
Year: 1786 (First edition)
Medium: Set of Two Original Soft-Ground Etchings and Stipple Engravings on heavy white wove paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown, likely London, UK
Publisher: Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi, London, UK
Reference: De Vesme/Calabi Nos. 2009-2028; Cicognara No. 293
Sheet size (each): approx. 8" x 12.25"
Image size (each): approx. 7.5" x 11.5"
Condition: "Four Muses" has a small tear at center left and center right edges in margin. A third tear from above center figure's head to edge in margin. "Father and Two Daughters" has one skillfully repaired tear from lady's forehead upper right to edge in margin. Both have some handling creases about their sheets and their margins are trimmed. They are both otherwise in fair condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - London, UK. Comes from Bartolozzi's one volume portfolio "Rudiments of Drawing" (1786), which consists of 10 soft-ground etchings and stipple engravings, (De Vesme/Calabi Nos. 2009-2028), after paintings by Italian artist Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-1785). Printed in one color: black. Examples of and from this portfolio are in many permanent museum collections including The British Museum, London, UK; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; The Getty, Los Angeles, CA; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
Biography:
Francesco Bartolozzi (born Sept. 21, 1727, Florence, Italy—died March 7, 1815, Lisbon, Port.) was a Florentine engraver in the service of George III of England. Bartolozzi, the son of a goldsmith, studied painting in Florence, trained as an engraver in Venice, and began his career in Rome. In 1764 he was invited to London, where he remained for 40 years. For his patron, George III, he executed numerous engravings, including those after Hans Holbein’s drawings at Windsor. He also made many engravings of paintings by Italian masters and by his friends, the fashionable painters Giovanni Cipriani and Angelica Kauffmann.Auguste Vestris, detail of an aquatint by F. Bartolozzi and B. Pastorini, 1781, after a portrait by Nathaniel Dance. Bartolozzi was not the inventor of the so-called crayon manner of engraving, which imitated the subtleties of chalk drawings, but he made it the fashion. In 1802 he was invited to Lisbon as director of the National Academy. His son, Gaetano Stephano (1757–1821), also an engraver, was the father of Madame Vestris.
Giovanni Battista Cipriani (born 1727, Florence, Italy—died December 14, 1785, London, England) Italian-born painter who was the first exponent in England of Neoclassicism and who played an important part in directing 18th-century English artistic taste. Cipriani was a pupil of the Anglo-Florentine painter Ignazio Hugford. In 1750 he went to Rome, where he encountered nascent Neoclassicism and met members of the English colony there. The architect William Chambers and the sculptor Joseph Wilton took him to England in 1755. His work there largely consists of illusionistic murals for the decoration of private residences such as Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, and Lansdowne House, London, both designed by Robert Adam. In addition, Cipriani collaborated with Chambers and Wilton on the Gold State Coach for the royal family. The carriage, which was built in the early 1760s, features panels painted by Cipriani. He was also a prolific draftsman of classical and allegorical subjects.
- Creator:Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815, Italian)
- Creation Year:1786
- Dimensions:Height: 8 in (20.32 cm)Width: 12.25 in (31.12 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:1780-1789
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Saint Augustine, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU121214067312
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