Allegory on the three ages of man

Reference: S23466
Author Johann Gottfried Seuter
Year: 1749 ca.
Measures: 372 x 263 mm
€200.00

Reference: S23466
Author Johann Gottfried Seuter
Year: 1749 ca.
Measures: 372 x 263 mm
€200.00

Description

Allegory on the three ages of man, after Titian; landscape with in the right foreground, seated on the ground, a naked young man and a woman playing pipe, on the left a winged putto stepping over two sleeping children, and beyond an old man contemplating a skull.

The painting is now in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.

From 'Raccolta Di Opere Scelte'.

Around 1749 it was decided that the plates executed by Lefevre for the famous "Opera Selectiora" set were to be republished. Because of a change in taste, and because they had worn off, the plates were either retouched with burin work by artists such as Giuseppe Waggner and Johann Gottfried Saiter, or completely remade. The set was published as "Le opere scelte dipinte da Tiziano Vecellio di Cadore, e da Paolo Cagliari di Verona" (Venice, 1749). A second edition, with added plates from the collection of Lovisa, was published by Teodoro Viero (Venice, 1786) under a different title: "Raccolta Di Opere Scelte Dipinte da Tiziano Vecellio, Antonio Regillo detto il Pordenone, Giacomo Robusti detto il Tintoretto, Paolo Calliari Veronese, Dario Varotari detto il Padoanino, Li Bassani, Giacomo Palma, Giuseppe Salviati, e varj altri celebri Maestri della Scola Veneziana, che fiorirono ne' tempi posteriori. Disegnate, ed Incise in parte Da Valentino Le Febre Di Bruxelles, ed in parte Da Silvestro Manaigo, e da Andrea Zucchi Veneti". [See "Jacopo Tintoretto e suoi incisori", Milan 1994, cat. 95, page 96].

Johann Gottfried Seuter (Augsburg 1717-1800)

Johann Gottfried Seuter (Saiter). Engraver; family ties with Johann Elias Ridinger and executed etchings after drawings by the latter. Also worked in Venice, copying Valentin Le Febre's etchings of Venetian paintings, where called Gottifredo Saiter. In Florence in 1744.

Johann Gottfried Seuter (Augsburg 1717-1800)

Johann Gottfried Seuter (Saiter). Engraver; family ties with Johann Elias Ridinger and executed etchings after drawings by the latter. Also worked in Venice, copying Valentin Le Febre's etchings of Venetian paintings, where called Gottifredo Saiter. In Florence in 1744.