An original 19th-century etching on laid paper with the self-portrait of Andrea del Sarto: the painter, in cap and doublet, turns toward the viewer while holding a sheet of drawing. Wide margins and a well-marked plate mark.
An original 19th-century etching on laid paper with the self-portrait of Andrea del Sarto: the painter, in cap and doublet, turns toward the viewer while holding a sheet of drawing. Wide margins and a well-marked plate mark.
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530), the Florentine painter his contemporaries called "senza errori", was one of the great fresco painters and portraitists of the High Renaissance.
Medium: etching on laid paper
Artist / after: Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530)
Publisher: Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, London
Dimensions: Plate mark 6.3 x 8.3 in (16 x 21 cm); sheet 9.4 x 13.6 in (24 x 34.5 cm)
Condition: good