1878. Boccace presenting his book to Mainardo Cavalcanti. Heliogravure by Amand-Durand after Cristofano Robetta
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Boccace presenting his book to Mainardo Cavalcanti.
Engraver and publisher: Charles Amand-Durand (1831-1905).
Artist: after Master of the Subjects in Boccaccio, 1470-1490 (fl. c.). Engraver (active in Bruges). The name was given by Passavant to the anonymous engraver of nine illustrations in a French translation of Boccaccio, published in 1476.
Media: heliogravure by master engraver Amand Durand. Original etching was created circa 1490, 2nd state. This impression is well more than 130 years old.
Production date: 1878.
Description: Boccace presenting his book to Mainardo Cavalcanti; the pope sits in the central background on a throne, flanked by two cardinals; Boccaccio kneels in the central foreground before Mainardo to the left; with two religious and two secular dignitaries on either side
Image size: 16,6x20 cms.
Sheet size: 39x45 cms.
Condition: good.
Amand-Durand was a master of the heliogravure etching by which an image was transferred through a photomechanical means onto a specially prepared copper plate, etched in acid, and then printed on damp paper on a hand press in limited quantities just as an etching would be.
It is a process that allowed for very detailed reproductions with all the gradations of tones found in the originals. He worked from actual fine quality prints of the original etchings, and his 19th century prints are often indistinguishable from the original artist etchings.
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Boccace presenting his book to Mainardo Cavalcanti.
Engraver and publisher: Charles Amand-Durand (1831-1905).
Artist: after Master of the Subjects in Boccaccio, 1470-1490 (fl. c.). Engraver (active in Bruges). The name was given by Passavant to the anonymous engraver of nine illustrations in a French translation of Boccaccio, published in 1476.
Media: heliogravure by master engraver Amand Durand. Original etching was created circa 1490, 2nd state. This impression is well more than 130 years old.
Production date: 1878.
Description: Boccace presenting his book to Mainardo Cavalcanti; the pope sits in the central background on a throne, flanked by two cardinals; Boccaccio kneels in the central foreground before Mainardo to the left; with two religious and two secular dignitaries on either side
Image size: 16,6x20 cms.
Sheet size: 39x45 cms.
Condition: good.
Amand-Durand was a master of the heliogravure etching by which an image was transferred through a photomechanical means onto a specially prepared copper plate, etched in acid, and then printed on damp paper on a hand press in limited quantities just as an etching would be.
It is a process that allowed for very detailed reproductions with all the gradations of tones found in the originals. He worked from actual fine quality prints of the original etchings, and his 19th century prints are often indistinguishable from the original artist etchings.