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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
FEDERICO BAROCCI Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata.
Etching and engraving, circa 1581. 232x153 mm; 9 1/4x6 1/8 inches, thread margins. A very good impression of this extremely scarce etching.
According to Reed, "The etched lines of the plate were underbitten, did not hold sufficient ink, and printed pale and gray . . . In order to salvage the plate, Barocci used a burin to engrave deeper lines and dots that held more ink and printed more darkly. Almost the entire figure of the saint was reworked this way," (Reed/Wallace, Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque, Boston, 1989, p. 93). Bartsch 3.
