Antique Master Print-HUNTERS-CURATE ARLOTTO-CATCH-Forster-San Giovanni

The Four Huntsmen with the Curate Arlotto. Original antique master print showing four hunters and their catch.

Made by Francois Forster after Jean de St Jean (Giovanni Mannozzi).

Medium: Etching / engraving with hand colouring. on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 45 x 34 cm (17.72 x 13.39 inch). Image size: 34 x 26 cm. (13.39 x 10.24 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Paper bubbly/wrinkly. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

HUNTERS-CURATE ARLOTTO-CATCH | DPO-A2-003-08

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

Biography engraver: Francois Forster (22 August 1790 ? 27 June 1872) was a French engraver. He was born at Locle, Switzerland. He studied in Paris under the engraver Pierre-Gabriel Langlois, and then studied painting and engraving at the ?cole des Beaux-Arts, where he won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1814.

Biography artist: Giovanni da San Giovanni (20 March 1592 ? 9 December 1636), also known as Giovanni Mannozzi, was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period.