After Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540), School of Fontainebleau (Antonio Fantuzzi ?)
Henri II entering the Temple of Immortality (or Ignorance Defeated) (cf. Bartsch 43; Zerner A.F. 24)
engraving, circa 1542, watermark Fleur-de-Lys (cf. Briquet 7082, Paris 1544), a very good impression of this apparently unrecorded print, trimmed to or just into the subject, a paper loss reaching into Rosso's address at the lower left corner, another loss at the lower right corner, a 30 mm. repaired tear at the left sheet edge, some other, shorter tears at the sheet edges elsewhere, a vertical central crease, the subject otherwise in good condition; together with God the Father seated on a Globe in Glory (B. 1; Zerner A.F. 64), attributed to Antonio Fantuzzi, etching, a lunette, circa 1543, possibly after Rosso Fiorentino or Luca Penni, a worn impression of this extremely rare print
S. 280 x 424 mm. (2)
After Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540), School of Fontainebleau (Antonio Fantuzzi ?)
Henri II entering the Temple of Immortality (or Ignorance Defeated) (cf. Bartsch 43; Zerner A.F. 24)
engraving, circa 1542, watermark Fleur-de-Lys (cf. Briquet 7082, Paris 1544), a very good impression of this apparently unrecorded print, trimmed to or just into the subject, a paper loss reaching into Rosso's address at the lower left corner, another loss at the lower right corner, a 30 mm. repaired tear at the left sheet edge, some other, shorter tears at the sheet edges elsewhere, a vertical central crease, the subject otherwise in good condition; together with God the Father seated on a Globe in Glory (B. 1; Zerner A.F. 64), attributed to Antonio Fantuzzi, etching, a lunette, circa 1543, possibly after Rosso Fiorentino or Luca Penni, a worn impression of this extremely rare print
S. 280 x 424 mm. (2)