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Venus ordering Psyche to take water from a fountain guarded by dragons
| Reference: | S48430 |
| Author | Maestro B nel Dado |
| Year: | 1532 ca. |
| Measures: | 230 x 195 mm |
€750.00
- New
| Reference: | S48430 |
| Author | Maestro B nel Dado |
| Year: | 1532 ca. |
| Measures: | 230 x 195 mm |
€750.00
Description
Venus standing at the left ordering Psyche to seek water from a fountain guarded by dragons, she again appears with an eagle in the upper right.
Engraving, 1532, after Michiel Coxie.
Apparently a rejected plate of the Cupid and Pysche series; or perhaps part of the first version but never copied into the second version with the verses.
The Fable of Psyche, a series in 32 engravings most likely executed in 1532 by Master B in the die and Agostino Veneziano (plates 4, 7 and 13), illustrates episodes from the myth of Cupid and Psyche, as told in Apuleius' Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, on Raphaelesque-inspired drawings attributed by Vasari (ed. Milanesi, V, p. 345) to Michiel Coxie (Malines 1499-1592).
Magnificent proof, rich in tone, printed on contemporary laid paper with “pilgrim in the circle” watermark (Woodward nos. 3-6), with full margins on three sides and trimmed to the platemark at the bottom, in excellent condition.
Bibliografia
Bartsch, Le Peintre graveur (XV.224.71).
Maestro B nel Dado (Attivo a Roma, metà XVI sec.)
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Master del Dado was trained as painter and engraver in Marcantonio’s workshop; he was born around 1512 and worked in Rome between 1532 and 1550. He is very often mistaken with Beatricetto or Bonasone.
Le Blanc believes that he was a descendant of Bernardo Daddi (1512 – Rome 1570), a painter, according to the monogram that signs his prints. Some others identify him with Benedetto Verini, presumed son of Marcantonio, which would have explained the monogram BV on his plates. According to Bartsch though, the V might stand for Venetian or again for Tommaso Vincidor da Bologna.
He engraved drawings of other artists for Lafrery; his favourite subjects were Raphael, Peruzzi, Giulio Romano and Tommaso Vincidor.
To Master del Dado have been ascribed about 85 prints, according to Malaspina and also Bartsch says they are 85, while Passavant believes they are 89.
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Maestro B nel Dado (Attivo a Roma, metà XVI sec.)
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Master del Dado was trained as painter and engraver in Marcantonio’s workshop; he was born around 1512 and worked in Rome between 1532 and 1550. He is very often mistaken with Beatricetto or Bonasone.
Le Blanc believes that he was a descendant of Bernardo Daddi (1512 – Rome 1570), a painter, according to the monogram that signs his prints. Some others identify him with Benedetto Verini, presumed son of Marcantonio, which would have explained the monogram BV on his plates. According to Bartsch though, the V might stand for Venetian or again for Tommaso Vincidor da Bologna.
He engraved drawings of other artists for Lafrery; his favourite subjects were Raphael, Peruzzi, Giulio Romano and Tommaso Vincidor.
To Master del Dado have been ascribed about 85 prints, according to Malaspina and also Bartsch says they are 85, while Passavant believes they are 89.
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