Description

Giovanni Marco Pitteri (1702-1786)

Giovanni Marco Pitteri: Bacchus

Engraving with burin.

Proof on strong laid paper. Engraving by Pitteri after a drawing by Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692-1768) and after a marble sculpture by Jacopo Sansovino (1486-1570) made around 1510 located in the Bargello palace in Florence. Pitteri developed an original method of engraving using regular parallel lines that he could thicken as needed (i.e. without intersecting).

Engraving of the first state before the final inscriptions i.e. without the mention of the plate number in the upper right corner (here missing the number 54 or ‘LIV’) nor the name of Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (Io. Dom. Campiglia Delia.). Engraving taken from the ‘Museum Florentinum’. Museum Florentinum’ is the title of a work dedicated to Giovanni Gaston de’ Medici, the last Grand Duke of Tuscany of the Medici line from 1723 to 1737. The entire work, consisting of 12 volumes in folio, was published from 1731 to 1766, enriched with 220 engraved illustrations.

Dimensions of the sheet : H. 477 mm x W. 350 mm – dimensions at the watermark : H. 358 mm x W. 220 mm.

Condition : some marks of handling in the lower margin.

References : Aldo Ravà in Alinari, Florence, 1922 / Marco Pitteri incisore Veneziano (250)