Lot 5
Nicolò Boldrini (ca. 1500-1566)
Landscape with a milkmaid at right and a boy at left, after Titian; and another (2)
Hammer Price: £500
Description
Nicolò Boldrini (ca. 1500-1566)
Landscape with a milkmaid at right and a boy at left, after Titian
Woodcut, circa 1535-1540, a bold, well inked impression printing with gaufrage, on laid paper with indistinct watermark, probably 16th century, sheet 410 x 555 mm (16 1/8 x 21 7/8 in), laid onto late 18th century buff laid paper support with pencil study of an antique bust verso, signed A. Adolphe, numerous areas of small sheet loss, rough edges, printers' creases, spotting and surface dirt (framed)
Together with a slightly later impression of the woodcut 'St. Jerome in the Wilderness', attributed to Boldrini, circa 1535-1540, 395 x 540 mm (15 1/2 x 21 1/4 in) (framed)
Provenance:
(Landscape with milkmaid) Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (1680-1765) [L. 2952]
Literature:
Passavant 96; 58
Description
Nicolò Boldrini (ca. 1500-1566)
Landscape with a milkmaid at right and a boy at left, after Titian
Woodcut, circa 1535-1540, a bold, well inked impression printing with gaufrage, on laid paper with indistinct watermark, probably 16th century, sheet 410 x 555 mm (16 1/8 x 21 7/8 in), laid onto late 18th century buff laid paper support with pencil study of an antique bust verso, signed A. Adolphe, numerous areas of small sheet loss, rough edges, printers' creases, spotting and surface dirt (framed)
Together with a slightly later impression of the woodcut 'St. Jerome in the Wilderness', attributed to Boldrini, circa 1535-1540, 395 x 540 mm (15 1/2 x 21 1/4 in) (framed)
Provenance:
(Landscape with milkmaid) Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (1680-1765) [L. 2952]
Literature:
Passavant 96; 58