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40 [Painting]
- [
Allegory with Venus and Cupid
], 17th c.? Gouache heightened with gold, 10,5 x
17 cm; not signed. Stuck by corners on paper. Some sm. tears in margins, somewhat stained and
rubbed.
€
200/300
In the center a lover, a lion skin over his shoulders looks at Venus and Cupid, on his right side:
Minerva. All in a nice architectural setting. Underneath ms. caption: “Pellicit alma Venus sed
contra prudentior ito?”.
~ After a tondo by Botticelli ~
41 [Painting]
- [
Virgin and Child
], s.d. (19th c.?). Painting (enamel?) on porcelain, tondo, diam. 9
cm; not signed. Faint traces on verso. Nice scene.
€
80/120
Copy in bright colours of the “Madonna of the Magnificat” by Sandro Botticelli. Delicately detailed,
representing Maria crowned by angels; she writes the opening of the “Magnificat” on the right-
hand page of a book. In the background, a landscape.
42 [Portraits]
-
2 beautiful hand-col. engr. portraits
, 17th c. Marg. tears, sl. brown. & foxing.
€
100/150
Fridericus III. Alberti 1. filius (...) obit. 1330, 26 x 17 cm (margins uneven); engr. caption with
additional coat-of-arms pasted on lower margin. -
Galle, Ph.
- Hibraim imperator Turcarum (...),
after Meyssens, publ. Antwerp, Gaspar de Hollander, 24,2 x 17 cm (good margins); engr. caption
with name “P. de Jode excudit” pasted on lower margin.
We join
: 18 other portraits, 17th-19th c., engr. or lithogr., various sizes and condition. With i.a.
Egmond, de Hornes, Marguerite of Parma, Charles V, Alexandre Farnese, Charles the Bold, F.
Dupanloup, etc. (20 pcs)
43 [Portrait]
-
Unfinished engraved portrait
, 17th c. Engraving, 26 x 21 cm; not signed. Paper age-
toned and sl. soiled.
Cfr. ill.
€
200/300
Portrait (of a Dutch physician?), finished with a pen drawing.
44 RAIMONDI, Marcantonio
- Mars, Venus and Cupid, [1508]. Tool engr., 29,4 x 21 cm (trimmed to
the borderline); engr. monogr., date erased. Passe-partout. Underlaid with old traces on verso, a few
unobtrusive stains. Good impression.
€
300/500
Beautiful mythological engraving, possibly after Mantegna.
Ref.
Bartsch XIV, p. 137, 345.
45 RAIMONDI, Marcantonio
- Mary and Martha ascending the steps of the Temple, s.d. Engraving,
23 x 34 cm (trimmed to the borderline); engr. name “Ant. Sal. exc” (i.e. Antonio Salamanca), no
inscription on the tablet lower left. Pasted by upper left corner. Corners strengthened with left
corners sl. damaged.
€
200/300
Mary and Martha ascending the steps of the Temple, at the entrance of which Christ is seated on
a throne. From a design by Raphael called “Notre Dame à l’escalier”. Small monogr. stamp of A.
Donnadieu (French officer, art dealer at London) on verso (Lugt 724).
Ref.
Cp. Bartsch XIV, p. 29,
45.
46 RIBERA, Jusepe de (lo Spagnoletto)
- Drunken Silenus, s.d. Etching, 26,7 x 35 cm (trimmed
to the borderline); engr. name and mention “Romae D.D.”, without date. Central vertical fold,
underlaid. Pasted by upper part, passe-partout.
€
150/200
Reverse copy of “Ribera’s final masterpiece in printmaking, this is a variant of the composition of a
painting made two years earlier (in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples), which in turn was inspired
