Print Description
Original antique print showing a portrait of Leon Battista Alberti (1404 – 1472), an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer.
Made by possibly Charles Errard after Anonymous.
Medium: Engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 16.5 x 28 cm (6.5 x 11.02 inch).
Condition: good, given age. No margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI-PORTRAIT | PCO-A17-24
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From: ‘Trattato della Pittura di Leonarde da Vinci […] Trattato della statua di Leon Battista Alberti […]’, by Rafaelle du Fresne, published by Langlois in Paris in 1651. Later ed. published in Naples, Francesco Ricciardo for Niccola & Vincenzo Rispoli, 1733. This plate appears to be from the 1651 ed. The plates in the 1733 ed. were re-engraved by Francesco Sesoni (Italian; active-1705-1733).
Biography engraver: Charles Errard is mentioned to have engraved in this work. We do not know if he is the engraver of this portrait. Charles Errard (1606-1689) was a French painter and engraver from Nantes. He worked in Rome. He became court painter to Louis XIV.
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