Boccaccio Presents His Book to Cavalcanti - Heliogravure - 1878
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Original heliogravure by Charles Amand-Durand, dated 1878, reproducing the fifteenth-century engraving of Boccaccio presenting his book to Mainardo Cavalcanti, with the pope enthroned between two cardinals behind. Laid paper with wide margins.
Original heliogravure by Charles Amand-Durand, dated 1878, reproducing the fifteenth-century engraving of Boccaccio presenting his book to Mainardo Cavalcanti, with the pope enthroned between two cardinals behind. Laid paper with wide margins.
The original engraving is attributed to the so-called Master of the Subjects in Boccaccio, an anonymous engraver active in Bruges, author of the nine illustrations of the French translation of Boccaccio published in 1476. Amand-Durand (1831-1905) reproduced these coppers by heliogravure and printed them by hand on damp paper.
Medium: Heliogravure on laid paper.
Artist / after: After the Master of the Subjects in Boccaccio (anonymous, active in Bruges c. 1470-1490).
Engraver / publisher: Charles Amand-Durand (1831-1905), engraver and publisher.
Date: 1878.
Dimensions: Image 6.5 x 7.9 in (16.6 x 20 cm); sheet 15.4 x 17.7 in (39 x 45 cm).
Condition: Good. Clean paper, with light creases at the upper right corner of the sheet.
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Original heliogravure by Charles Amand-Durand, dated 1878, reproducing the fifteenth-century engraving of Boccaccio presenting his book to Mainardo Cavalcanti, with the pope enthroned between two cardinals behind. Laid paper with wide margins.