Venus Couching
| Reference: | S39976 |
| Author | Albrecht ALTDORFER |
| Year: | 1525 ca. |
| Measures: | 42 x 63 mm |
| Reference: | S39976 |
| Author | Albrecht ALTDORFER |
| Year: | 1525 ca. |
| Measures: | 42 x 63 mm |
Description
Engraving, 1525-30 circa, signed with monogram on the pedestal at the right.
After Marcantonio Raimondi.
Example in its first state, of two, with a large scratch on the left shoulder of Venus.
Very good impression, printed on contemporary laid paper, trimmed close to platemark, in very good condition.
A reduced copy, in reverse, after Marcantonio Raimondi’s engraving (B. 313). The landscape background has been replaced by an interior with a bouquet of lilies of the valley.
A great example.
Literature
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New Hollstein (German) e.40.I (Altdorfer); Bartsch VIII.53.33.
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Albrecht ALTDORFER (1480 ca. - Regensburg 1538)
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He was a painter, the leader of the Danubian School in southern Germany, and a contemporary of Albrecht Dürer.
He was a landscape painter of religious and mythological representations; very famous also for painting landscapes for their beauty and not as illustrating any story or parable, perhaps the first "pure" landscape painter.
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Literature
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New Hollstein (German) e.40.I (Altdorfer); Bartsch VIII.53.33.
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Albrecht ALTDORFER (1480 ca. - Regensburg 1538)
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He was a painter, the leader of the Danubian School in southern Germany, and a contemporary of Albrecht Dürer.
He was a landscape painter of religious and mythological representations; very famous also for painting landscapes for their beauty and not as illustrating any story or parable, perhaps the first "pure" landscape painter.
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