Unidentified
engraver from the circle of Marco Sadeler (aka Marcus Sadeler; Marc Sadeler) (fl.1660s), “The
Massacre of the Innocents” (aka “Infanticide in Bethlehem”), c.1660, copy
in the reverse direction after Aegidius Sadeler II’s (aka Ægedius
Sadeler; Egidius Sadeler; Gillis Sadeler; Gillis Sadler) (c.1570–1629) engraving
of the same composition (TIB 7201.036), that, in turn,
is a copy in reverse after (possibly) Philippe Thomassin (1562–1622) reproducing
Jacopo Tintoretto’s (aka Jacopo Robusti) (1519–1594) painting at the
Scuola of San Rocco, Venice, published by Marco Sadeler.
Engraving on
laid paper backed with a support sheet.
Size: (sheet) 24.9
x 29.8cm; (plate) 21.4 x 25.9cm; (image borderline) 19.2 x 25.4cm.
Lettered in
plate below the image borderline: (left) “Jacobus Tinctoretus [sic] Ïnuentor.”;
(center in three columns of two lines) “Pvgna ardet …/ …// …// …// …/ … inualidos”;
(right) “Marco Sadeler excudit.”
TIB 7201.036 C2
(Isabelle de Ramaix [ed.] 1997, “The Illustrated Bartsch: Ægidius Sadeler II”,
vol. 72, Part 1 [Supplement]), New York, Abaris Books, p. 59, cat. no. [7201] .036
C2).
Condition: a
strong and well-printed impression. There is a wormhole in the text lines at
lower right and a replenished hairline printer’s crease in the lower centre,
otherwise the sheet is in a good condition with no tears or significant stains
and has been laid onto a sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper.
I am selling
this sensitively executed engraving reproducing Tintoretto’s famous oil painting (see https://www.wga.hu/html_m/t/tintoret/3b/3ground/4massac.html) —interestingly, the engraving portrays
the arm of the woman protecting her child in the foreground at centre,
whereas her arm in Tintoretto’s painting is cropped at the lower edge of the painting and possibly, as the Web
of Art proposes (see URL above), “Tintoretto may have attached an arm made of
plaster or stucco to the picture, as many Baroque painters later did”—for the
total cost of AU$279 (currently US$177.41/EUR163.06/GBP136.90 at the time of
posting this listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to
anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by
some countries. Note that payment is in Australian dollars (AU$279) as this is
my currency.
If you are
interested in purchasing this minutely detailed engraving published in
the 1660s, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send
you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.
This print is still available
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