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SCHOOL OF MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (FIRST HALF 16TH CENTURY)
Lot 74

SCHOOL OF MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (FIRST HALF 16TH CENTURY)

Bacchante astride a Goat

Closed25 January 2017

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SCHOOL OF MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (FIRST HALF 16TH CENTURY)
Bacchante astride a Goat
engraving, circa 1520-30, on laid paper, with an indistinct Circle watermark, a good impression of this very rare print, with small margins, in good condition
Plate 119 x 87 mm., Sheet 126 x 95 mm.

Giancarlo Beltrame (1925-2011), Vicenza; then by descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

The engraving relates to the composition of a ceiling fresco in the Sala dell' Aquila at the Palazzo del Te in Mantua, but both the fresco and the engraving may in fact go back to an antique stone relief of Roman times.