The Holy Family receives a basket of fruit from a young woman
| Reference: | S30105 |
| Author | Diana SCULTORI |
| Year: | 1575 ca. |
| Measures: | 166 x 236 mm |
€1,500.00
| Reference: | S30105 |
| Author | Diana SCULTORI |
| Year: | 1575 ca. |
| Measures: | 166 x 236 mm |
€1,500.00
Description
Engraving, signed at upper left. After Francesco Salviati.
A magnific impression, printed on contemporary laid paper, trimmed to the platemark, very good conditions.
The work comes from Francesco Salviati and can be traced back to the early Roman period of Diana Scultori, circa 1575-1576. The dating and attribution to the Salviati are possible thanks to another engraving of Diana, of the same subject - in counterpart with respect to this and with some variations - dated 1583 in the plate with an inscription that indicates expressly Francesco Salviati as inventor of the drawing. In the past, Bartsch, Nagler and Brulliot, not knowing the engraving of 1583, it had assumed a derivation after Primaticcio.
The scene shows the Holy Family who receives the gift of a fruit basket from a young woman, behind which shows, almost shyly, a child. In the background, the architecture. On the pedestal to the left, next to the figures, it reads the signature DIANA.
Literature
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Bartsch, XV, 14; Nagler, V, p. 420; Bellini, p. 187, 16.
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Diana SCULTORI (Mantova ante 1530- Roma 1588)
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Diana Scultori, also known as Mantovana or erroneously Ghisi, was daughter of Giovan Battista and sister of Adamo. She was born in Mantua before 1530. In Mantua, she got married to Francesco, an architect from Volterra, whom she met after 1566, when Cesare Gonzaga had hired him to decorate his studio for the medals (which he embellished with ebony and ivory). After her marriage, Diana started signing her works as Diana Mantuana, civis Volterrana incidebat, to underline the fact that she had become citizen of that renowned city.
She lived and worked in Rome from 1575, signing her works as “civis volterrana”. Here she died in 1588.
In Rome she engraved drawings of Raphael and other Roman Mannerists.
Bartsch ascribes to her 47 prints, Passavant 59.
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Literature
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Bartsch, XV, 14; Nagler, V, p. 420; Bellini, p. 187, 16.
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Diana SCULTORI (Mantova ante 1530- Roma 1588)
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Diana Scultori, also known as Mantovana or erroneously Ghisi, was daughter of Giovan Battista and sister of Adamo. She was born in Mantua before 1530. In Mantua, she got married to Francesco, an architect from Volterra, whom she met after 1566, when Cesare Gonzaga had hired him to decorate his studio for the medals (which he embellished with ebony and ivory). After her marriage, Diana started signing her works as Diana Mantuana, civis Volterrana incidebat, to underline the fact that she had become citizen of that renowned city.
She lived and worked in Rome from 1575, signing her works as “civis volterrana”. Here she died in 1588.
In Rome she engraved drawings of Raphael and other Roman Mannerists.
Bartsch ascribes to her 47 prints, Passavant 59.
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