Marco Pitteri, “St Paul”, 1742, after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Marco Pitteri (aka Marco Alvise Pitteri; Giovanni Marco Pitteri) (1702–1786)—famous for developing “an original method of engraving (not etching), using parallel lines, which are thickened at regular intervals along their length with more deeply engraved sections” (see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG42160)

“St Paul” (aka “Sanctus Paulus”), 1742, from the series “The Holy Family and Apostles”, after the painting by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (aka Giambattista Piazzetta) (1682–1754) (see https://www.kollerauktionen.ch/en/337441-0001-1196-GIOVANNI-BATTISTA-PIAZZETTA.-H-1196_493349.html).

Engraving on fine laid paper trimmed within the platemark with loss of text below the image borderline and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 10.4 x 7.8 cm.

Ravà 109 (Aldo Ravà 1922, “Marco Pitteri: Incisore Veneziano”, Florence, p. 21, cat. no. 109).

Note that the Rijksmuseum offers descriptions of two versions of this print: the larger version, Ravà 108: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200244630 and the smaller version, that I am showcasing, Ravà 109: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200244636.

See also the description of the larger version offered by Maria Agnese Chiari Moretto Wiel (ed.) 1966, “L’eredità di Piazzetta: volti e figure nell’incisione del Settecento”, exh. cat. Palazzo Ducale, Venice, p. 28, cat. no. 28.

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression trimmed within the platemark (with loss of the text lines) and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. The sheet has no tears, holes, abrasions or stains.

I am selling this superb engraving executed in Pitteri’s remarkable technique of employing parallel lines interrupted with “dots”—somewhat like knots in string—to render form in dramatic light, for AU$329 (approximately US$212.45, EUR 186.85, or GBP 157.48), including express mail shipping worldwide.  Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you are interested in purchasing this jewel of an engraving that despite its somewhat diminutive size is arguably one of Pitteri's masterpieces” (see Maria Agnese Chiari Moretto Wiel [1966], p. 28), please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Tancrède Abraham, “Wetlands of Anjou”, 1868

Tancrède Abraham (1836–1895)

“Wetlands of Anjou”—the marsh at Anjou in the lower Loire valley, north-western France (my apologies if this information is incorrect, but the proposed site of the scene was given to me by the art dealer from whom I purchased the print and the etching is so rare that I have been unable to find other impressions of it or descriptions in the standard catalogues of Abraham's work by Beraldi and the IFF), 1868.

Etching wove paper with small margins around the image borderline, flattened gate-folds of publication and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 25.1 x 35.5 cm; (image borderline) 22 x 34.7 cm.

Inscribed in plate within the image borderline: (lower right edge) “T. ABRAHAM PINXIT [et?] SCVL/ 1868”.

For catalogue references, see Henri Beraldi 1885, “Les Graveurs du XIX Siecle”, Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, vol. 1, pp. 11–12 (https://archive.org/details/lesgraveursdu19e01berauoft/page/10/mode/2up]) and Jean Laran 1930-33, “Inventaire du Fonds Français après 1800: Abbéma–Beaumontr”, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes, vol. 1, pp. 21–22 (https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54886103/f25.item).

Condition: a richly inked and well-printed impression with small margins around the image borderline and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. Beyond the flattened gate-fold of publication, the sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, abrasions or significant stains.

I am selling this remarkably strong etching of light fading on a herdsman and his cow in the wetlands of Anjou (north-western France) for AU$239 (approximately US$153.77, EUR 135.47, or GBP 114.28), including express mail shipping worldwide.  Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you are interested in purchasing this marvellously etching rich in tonal contrast and detail, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.