Palazzo Farnese

1549

Nicolas Beatrizet

Engraver, French, 1515 - 1565 or after

Antonio Lafreri

Publisher, Italian, 1512 - 1577

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 33.8 × 54 cm (13 5/16 × 21 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.46.1.21

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rubach, no. 375, state ii/iv

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Weingarten Monastery, Swabia, 1632 (title page inscription in the NGA "Speculum"). Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu, Belgium (bookplate: Ex libris Vallis Dei). English export license recording the sale of this volume in 1974 by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd., London; Daniel Donahue, Santa Barbara, CA; (Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C.); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: XV.270.102 (copy)

1921

  • Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921: no. 102a.

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur français, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française. Ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch.. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris, 1967: IX.176.106 i/ii

2016

  • Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.

Inscriptions

Lettered LL: "NB. F." and LR: "Antonij Lafrerij Sequani formis MDXLVIIII"
Lettered along the top margin: "Exterior orthographiae frontis Farnesianae domus..."

Wikidata ID

Q77259592

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