Print Description
Medium: Etching (radering), printed in black ink on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 17 x 22 cm (6.69 x 8.66 inch). Image size: 17 x 22 cm. (6.69 x 8.66 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Good impression with wide margins. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI, 18TH CENTURY PORTRAIT, DANISH PRINT, OVAL PORTRAIT, RENAISSANCE ARTIST, REPRODUCTIVE ENGRAVING, OLD MASTER PORTRAIT | PCO-E15-2-43
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Likely part of an 18th-century series of portraits of famous artists; precise publication unknown.
State: Proof ed. before captions.
Reference: Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen, inv. KKS1987-55.
Biography engraver: The engraver is unidentified but described as Danish and active in the 18th century.
Biography artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance. Among his most famous works are the sculptures of David and the Piet? and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He is regarded as one of the greatest artists in Western art history.
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