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OBJECT

definition: stampa

SUBJECT

identification: SAN GIOVANNI BATTISTA
: Saint John the Baptist

LOCATION

Londra, British Museum, Prints and Drawings

ACQUISIZIONE NELLA RACCOLTA

PROVENIENZA

DATE

sec. XVI, secondo quarto
1527 ca. - 1530 ca.

AUTHOR

STATE

secondo stato

TECHNICAL DATA

xilografia; chiaroscuro; mm 137 x 139 ca.
medium material: carta

CONSERVATION

buono

MODALITÀ DI CONSERVAZIONE

RESTORATIONS

INSCRIPTIONS











STEMMI, MARCHI

type of material: monogramma/firma, dell'autore
identification: Antonio da Trento
position: in basso al centro
description: AT
Antonio da Trento

HISTORICAL INFORMATION

Chiaroscuro woodcut from 2 blocks, red/black, ii state



State i/iii: with a tone block with linear, hatched and cross hatched reserves

State ii/iii: tone block replaced; line block cut back above John's halo, neck, collarbone, chest, and proper left knee

State iii/iii: two, short vertical strokes in the line block in John's proper left calf removed



See comment in ALU.0959.1

from Naoko Takahatake, The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June-September 2018, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, October 2018-January 2019, DelMonico Books/Prestel, Munich-London-New York, 2018, pp. 106-108.



-Fondation Custodia inv. 4942 (state i/iii, ALU.0959.1)

-BM 1920,0512.23: red/black (state ii/iii, ALU.0959.2)

-MMA 18.17.2-20: light brown/black, but trimmed (state iii/iii, ALU.0959.3)

-PMA 1985-52-194: gray/black https://philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/30022.html (state i/iii)

-BM W,4.45: brown/black (horizontal break in tone block) https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_W-4-45

-BM W,4.46: brown/black (opaque)

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_W-4-46

-BM W,4.47: olive/black (early) https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_W-4-47

-BM W,4.48: olive/black (early) https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_W-4-48

-Berlin 546-14: light green/black

-Berlin 548-14: light brown/black

-BNE 41176: lavender/black http://catalogo.bne.es/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=b8V0DhiBaM/BNMADRID/317721089/9

-BNF BD 5 Mazzuoli: red/black

-BNF BD 5 Mazzuoli: orange/gray (minor breaks/wormholes)

-BNF BD 5 Mazzuoli: brown/black (breaks/wormholes

-Braunschweig I.XVI.WB4

-Budapest 6238: state i/iii line block only http://printsanddrawings.hu/search/prints/6238/

-Budapest 6239: mint green/gray http://printsanddrawings.hu/search/prints/6239/

-Chatsworth vol. IV, fol 34, no. 51: red/black

-Courtauld: yellow/black (wormholes)

-Courtauld G.1978.PG.33: light blue/black

-Courtauld G.1990.WL.974: blue-green/black

-ENSBA Est Mas 108: light brown/black (early)

-Escorial 28-1-19 fol. 105: lime/black (later) https://rbmecat.patrimonionacional.es/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=31868&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A%20Parmigianino

-Harvard M9903: olive/black https://hvrd.art/o/261485

-Frankfurt 33889: lime/black

-Marucelliana, stampe vol. 25, no. 15 (state ii/iii)

-Marucelliana , stampe vol. 25, no. 75: light green/gray

-MFA B4112: red/black state (iii/iii, early) https://collections.mfa.org/objects/94615/st-john-the-baptist-in-the-desert?ctx=24cbc4a7-a993-4a5b-9089-26a4545be696&idx=0

-MFA P1702: tan/black https://collections.mfa.org/objects/94623/st-john-the-baptist-in-the-desert?ctx=ea485909-50d4-439e-be3d-4cb058557b99&idx=0

-MFA B4111: olive/black (opaque inks; some wormholes) https://collections.mfa.org/objects/94610/st-john-the-baptist-in-the-desert?ctx=2ac49bd5-db74-4724-8e27-ad4a34519b63&idx=0

-MFA 1975.544: light olive/black (wormholes) https://collections.mfa.org/objects/174544/st-john-the-baptist-in-the-desert?ctx=5866fe92-18f6-4421-a6fc-0cbeeb2f9dc4&idx=0

-MFA 1975.545: light brown/black (some wormholes) https://collections.mfa.org/objects/174545/st-john-the-baptist-in-the-desert?ctx=fd159ce0-8836-48c5-8e38-82f0bde0e2db&idx=0

-MMA 22.73.3.54: mustard/black (worn) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/631760

-MMA 22.73.3.159: brown/black (worn) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/631764

-MMA 22.73.3-53: green/black https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/631762

-MMA 22.67.82: olive/black https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/631766

-MMA 2012.136.119 : green/black https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/397296

-Munich 162661: light blue/black

-Uffizi 85 St. Sc.: red/black (before horizontal break)

-Frances Lehman Loeb 1984.19 http://emuseum.vassar.edu/view/objects/asitem/search@/4/title-desc?t:state:flow=eb0a4a0e-7602-4ab2-9d4d-10c3b6ee549e

-Yale 1944.105: mustard/brown (muddy ink) https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/44823

-Yale: olive/black

-Blanton 2002.1309: light green/grey (wormholes) https://collection.blantonmuseum.org/objects-1/info?query=mfs%20all%20%22Antonio%20da%20Trento%22&sort=0&page=3

-Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-31.120: red-brown/black http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.51604

-Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-31.121: red-brown/black http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.51607

-Albertina HB 33 2 272: brown/black (late)

-Albertina HB 33 2 278: brown/black (late)

-Albertina DG2002/464: gray-green/black https://sammlungenonline.albertina.at/?query=search=/record/objectnumbersearch=[DG2002%2f464]&showtype=record

-Albertina HB 33 2 279: blue/black

-Albertina DG2002/463: light brown/black https://sammlungenonline.albertina.at/?query=search=/record/objectnumbersearch=[DG2002%2f463]&showtype=record

-Albertina DG2002/465: light green/black https://sammlungenonline.albertina.at/?query=search=/record/objectnumbersearch=[DG2002%2f465]&showtype=record

-Albertina HB 33 2 277: olive/black

-Albertina: brown/dark brown (late)

-ETH 2002.120: green/black

-PMA 1985-52-2336:orange-black https://philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/30021.html?mulR=987027481|26

-Kirk Edward Long Collection Standford University

-Long Collection (Barryte 439) L.19.10.2008: brown/black (late) http://cantorcollection.stanford.edu/objects-1/info?query=mfs%20all%20%22antonio%20da%20trento%22

-Long Collection (Barryte 440) L.15.207.2007: brown/dark brown(late) http://cantorcollection.stanford.edu/objects-1/info?query=mfs%20all%20%22antonio%20da%20trento%22&page=9

-Fine Arts Museum San Francisco Achenbach 1963.30.698: olive/black https://art.famsf.org/antonio-da-trento/st-john-baptist-desert-196330698



-Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio, inv. 49356


PHOTOGRAPHS

type of material: fotografia digitale
ente proprietario: London, British Museum ©
notes: Creative Commons

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bartsch A., Le peintre graveur, Vienne, 1803-1821, v. XII, p. 73, n. 17

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Popham A.E., "Observations on Parmigianino's designs for Chiaroscuro woodcuts", Miscellanea I. Q. van Regteren Altena, Amsterdam, 1969, pp. 48-51, p. 49
Popham A.E., Catalogue of the drawings of Parmigianino, New Haven, 1971, vol. 1, pp. 13, 45–46
, Chiaroscuro woodcuts from the Frits Lugt Collection in Paris, Tokyo, 2005, nn. 18a–b, p. 43 (Hinterding E.)
Stiber Morenus L., "The chiaroscuro woodcut printmaking of Ugo da Carpi, Antonio da Trento and Niccolò Vicentino: technique in relation to artistic style", Printing colour 1400 - 1700, Leiden, 2015, 123-139, pp. 124–30
Takahatake N., The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy, Los Angeles, 2018, pp. 106-108 (Stiber Morenus L.) 
https://www.thelacmastore.org/products/the-chiaroscuro-woodcut-in-renaissance-italy?_pos=1&_sid=ce2a0cc2a&_ss=r

MOSTRE/ESPOSIZIONI

ENTRY'S AUTHOR

Stiber Morenus L., 2020
Stiber Morenus L., Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento, ALU.0959.2, https://archivi.cini.it/storiaarte/detail/46884/stampa-46884.html, ISBN 978-88-96445-24-2

UPDATE

Battagliotti L., 2024