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LOT 3608:
Giovanni Battista Fontana, Die Heilige Familie
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Giovanni Battista Fontana, Die Heilige Familie
Giovanni Battista Fontana, The Holy Family
Mary sitting at the foot of a tree, caringly giving her breast to the infant Jesus, with Joseph at her side, large-format copperplate engraving on weak laid paper, mid-16th century, inscribed and dated in the lower centre of the print "Battista Parmen. formis. Roma 1588" (formis = owner of the printing plate), nice, clear, burr-free impression, paper evenly browned and minimally spotted, partly trimmed within the border line, framed behind plastic sheet, sheet dimensions approx. 44 x 33,8 cm. Artist's info: Ital. Artist (c. 1524 Ala near Verona to 1587 Innsbruck) nothing is known about the artist's training, from 1562 in the service of Emperor Ferdinand I, from 1572 working for Ferdinand II, in 1573 designed the frescoes in the Ballspiel Burg, from 1575 court painter to Ferdinand II, decorated the Silver Chapel of the Court Church at Innsbruck, in 1586 designed a wooden ceiling at Ambras Castle, Source: Thieme-Becker and Wikipedia.
