Antique Master Print-LANDSCAPE-SAINT-EARLY LITHOGRAPHY-Carracci-Strixner-c. 1811

Price: € 132,50

Subject: Antique Master Print, untitled. A saint with a book in a landscape.

Condition: Fair, given age. No margins, restored small tears in the margins, loss of image at left side. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Lithography on wove paper. Watermark: Monogram and Basel

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 50.7 x 37 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 20 x 14.6 inch.

Part Number: 71109

Location: TPCLA-B1-17

Description: Rare, from the "Oeuvres lithographiques". State: Second state of 3 Ref: Winkler 965, 2.3

Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Johann Nepomuk Strixner' after 'Annibale Carracci'. Johann Nepomuk Strixner (German 1782-1855), was one of the earliest lithographers. Educated in drawing and engraving he became a student in the workshop of the inventor of Lithography (invented c. 1796) Alois Senefelder and participated in the early experimenting and projects. He then became a professional lithographer helping to record famous Munich Museum collections. After being hired by the Boisseree brothers he was send to Paris to master the French development in lithography. Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) was a printmaker, draughtsman, painter and etcher born in Bologna.