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Lot 148: Annibale Carracci - Arti di Bologna: Ink seller and Onion Seller - 1646

Est: €180 EUR - €260 EURPassed
Old Master PrintIZEGEM, BelgiumApril 17, 2025

Item Overview

Description

Diverse figure al numero di ottanta, disegnate di penna nell'hore di recreatione da Annibale Carracci intagliate in rame, e cavate dagli originali da Simone Guilino', more commonly called by the titles in the later reprints, 'Le Arti di Bologna': The occupations of the Bolognese). Here excellent early impressions, with the little scratches in the plates still visible, from the first edition of 1646 with traces of an earlier number erased in the bottom left corner also noticeable on the first editions in Paris and Washington, but before the captions with the identification of the showed occupations in later states. It is assumed that Annibale Carracci would have drawn the figures of the Trades of his city, almost for fun, during the breaks in the work for the Farnese Gallery. The painter would have decided to collect these drawings in an album. Knowledge of this work by Annibale Carracci is due to the prelate Giovanni Antonio Massani, a relative of Pope Urban VIII and previously secretary of Giovanni Battista Agucchi. Massani, having found himself in possession of Annibale's drawings, as he himself narrates, had them engraved by the Frenchman Simon Guillain (1618-1658) and printed them in a volume entitled Diverse Figures al numero di ottanta, Disegnate di penna Nell'ore di raccolta da Annibale Carracci intagliate in copper, e scavate dagli Originali da Simone Guilino Parigino, dedicato a tutti i Virtuosi et Intendenti della Professione della Pittura, e del Disegno, printed in Rome in 1646. Here a pair of etchings from this famous work, mainly known by the later editions with title of the subject (here before...). The subjects here in this lot have later bein identified as: ' Inchiostro fino' A man selling ink, stands facing to the right, holding some glass bottles in his left hand and a small barrel in his right.) and 'Vende Agli e Cipolle' (the street seller of garlic and onions) Special for these etchings is that they have the title written in sepia ink beneath the print, only in later editions they were added to the copperplate etching itself. Also noticeable is these plates are signed respectively ' A C I --- S. g S' and 'An. Ca Inv. --- S.G. Sc'' The number is also etched bottom middle, in later reworked editions it was set at the left or right corner to make space for the etched title. Our example is 100% identical as the first edition kept in the Library of Congres (In Roma : Nella Stamperia di Lodovico Grigniani, 1646). The British Museum holds only an etdition from 1740 with name of the profession etched in the image and other differences as described for later states. A pair of rare and original impressions from the first edition from 1646.

Dimensions

27,30 x 16,50 cm

Artist or Maker

Medium

Pair of Etchings

Date

1646

Condition Report

Outstanding early impressions with nice plate tone on crown watermarked laid paper with good margins. Subject titled in brown ink in lower margin. Excellent untouched condition.

Literature

IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (3) ----- Perfect Deformity, Ideal Beauty, and the "Imaginaire" of Work: The Reception of Annibale Carracci's "Arti di Bologna" in 1646 Author by Sheila McTighe in Oxford Art Journal , 1993, Vol. 16, No. 1 (1993), pp. 75-91).

Notes

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