Plate 12: A young man leaning on a staff looking outward, with an old man behind to his right; from 'Icones ad vivum expressae' after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta 1743 Giovanni Cattini Italian Cattini engraved a set of 15 plates (frontispiece plus 14 numbered plates) after Piazzetta, entitling them: Icones ad vivum expressae. Most copies of the set are dated 1754 on the title page. A fine early set in the Mariette album of Piazzetta engravings in the Biblioteque Nationale is dated 1743. Moschini and Palluchini refer to a title page of 1763. Teodoro Viero reissued a reduced set of 8 plates plus
Plate 12: A young man leaning on a staff looking outward, with an old man behind to his right; from 'Icones ad vivum expressae' after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta 1743 Giovanni Cattini Italian Cattini engraved a set of 15 plates (frontispiece plus 14 numbered plates) after Piazzetta, entitling them: Icones ad vivum expressae. Most copies of the set are dated 1754 on the title page. A fine early set in the Mariette album of Piazzetta engravings in the Biblioteque Nationale is dated 1743. Moschini and Palluchini refer to a title page of 1763. Teodoro Viero reissued a reduced set of 8 plates plus title page in 1767. Several prints in the set were also copied by Johann Lorenz Haid of Augsburg (1702 - 1750), 1743-1750 and by Franz Xavier Jungwirth of Munich (1720-1790) in 1753 (see: George Knox, Piazzetta, exh. cata., National Gallery, 1983, no. 25; Maria Wiel, L'eredità di Piazzetta, 1996, , ).. Plate 12: A young man leaning on a staff looking outward, with an old man behind to his right; from 'Icones ad vivum expressae' after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. Giovanni Cattini (Italian, Venice ca. 1715–ca. 1800 Venice). 1743. Etching. Prints
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