Antique Master Print-PASTOR FIDO-SILVIO-DORINDA-LINCO-Guercino -Bonato-1739

Subject: Antique Master Print, titled: ‘Credendo di saettare una belva Silvio feri Dorinda miseramente accesa di lui.’ – Plate illustrating the tragicomedy Il Pastor Fido. This scene is from the play’s subplot, which concentrates on the love of the nymph Dorinda for Silvio, who cares only for the hunt and is oblivious to her feelings. After one of Silvio’s arrows accidentally wounds Dorinda, she crawls out from the bushes where she had been hiding in her animal-skin disguise and falls into the arms of her guardian, Linco. Silvio, distraught and finally realizing his own love for Dorinda, offers her the arrow so that she can exact revenge by taking his life in return. Dorinda, whose wound is only superficial, wisely rejects his emotional offer so that all ends well. The two lovers are married before sunset that very day.

Condition: Very good, given age. Top and lower edges reinforced on rear. Some creasing and soiling in the margin edges. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Etching/engraving on hand laid paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 55.5 x 49.7 cm. The image size is ca. 51.8 x 47.2 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 21.9 x 19.6 inch. The image size is ca. 20.4 x 18.6 inch.

Part Number: 57312

Location: PCO-P3-30 / Expo-165

Description: Source unknown, to be determined.

Artists and Engravers: Made by ‘Pietro Bonato’ after ‘Barbieri / Guercino’. Pietro Bonato (1765–1820) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque. He was a pupil of Giovanni Volpato, was born at Bassano. He worked with Giuseppe Bortignoni the Younger in engraving ceiling decorations from the Vatican. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino (1591-1666) was a renowned Italian painter.