Antique Master Print-VIRGIN-CHILD-ST JOHN-MADONNA-Bloemaert-17th.c.

The Virgin and Child with St. John

Made by an anonymous engraver after Cornelis Bloemaert after Titian.

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: Pro Patria (Dutch garden).

Sheet size: 25.1 x 31.8 cm (9.88 x 12.52 inch). Image size: 22.8 x 29 cm. (8.98 x 11.42 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Printer’s greases a bottom left. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

VIRGIN-CHILD-ST JOHN-MADONNA | PCO-E17-38

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

Biography artist: Cornelis Bloemaert II (1603 – 28 September 1692), was a Dutch painter and engraver, who after training the Dutch Republic worked most of his career in Rome. His workshop in Rome played an important role in spreading Italian art throughout Europe and attracted many young engravers from abroad.

Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (c.1488/90 – 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian, was an Italian (Venetian) Renaissance painter of Lombard origin, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, ‘from Cadore’, taken from his native region.