Marcantonio RAIMONDI (1480-1534), engraved by - Lot 175

Marcantonio RAIMONDI (1480-1534), engraved by The sleeping man at the entrance of a wood Heliogravure reproduction Monogrammed MAF in the lower right corner In a gilded wood frame Height : 11 cm Width : 8,5 cm (Mottling, fading) An identical engraving is kept in the department of graphic arts of the Louvre Museum, inventory number 4228 LR/ Recto. According to Bartsch, this print was engraved after a drawing by Francia. Bibliography: G. Fiorenza, 'Marcantonio Raimondi's Early Engravings: Myth and Imitation in Renaissance Bologna' in G. Anselmi, Bologna. Cultural Crossroads from the Medieval to the Baroque, 2013, pp. 13-25. K. Oberhuber, 'Marcantonio Raimondi: gli inizi a Bologna e il primo periodo romano', in 'Bologna e l'Umanesimo', 1988, pp. 51-88. David Morris, 'Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael and the image multiplied', Manchester University, 2016, no. 2, p.132 (proof The Whitworth Institute, University of Manchester). Bartsch, 1813, XIV, p. 330, n°438; Passavant, n°243, D. 208.