Putto alato fra tralci e grappoli d'uva (Allegoria dell'abbondanza)

Reference: S39963
Author Anonimo
Year: 1795 ca.
Measures: 27 x 51 mm
€225.00

Reference: S39963
Author Anonimo
Year: 1795 ca.
Measures: 27 x 51 mm
€225.00

Description

Copy, with only dotted outlines, of a composition that, according to Marquis Malaspina, was pulles from a niello that belonged to the Durazzo collection, which has not yet been identified.

The nielli of the Durazzo collection were reproduced in prints by owner’s will, between the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, in Venice - as also specified by Malaspina in his catalog of 1824 - constituting a series that was circulated and collected by the amateurs.

Bartsch describes these niello prints in his volume published in 1811, a date that therefore constitutes the terminus ante quem for the execution.

The composition is interpreted as an allegory of Abundance.

Anonimo

Anonimo