Two Nude Men in a Landscape

Name: DOMENICO BECCAFUMI (1484-1551)
Brand: Two Nude Men in a Landscape
Price: 5000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 6,300

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GBP 8,000 - GBP 12,000

Closed: 21 Mar 2025

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DOMENICO BECCAFUMI (1484-1551)

Two Nude Men in a Landscape

Price Realised GBP 6,300

Closed: 21 Mar 2025

Price Realised GBP 6,300

Closed: 21 Mar 2025

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DOMENICO BECCAFUMI (1484-1551)
Two Nude Men in a Landscape
engraving
circa 1537
on laid paper, without watermark
a good impression of this rare print
presumably an undescribed second, final state, with the artist's name removed
trimmed to the platemark or with thread margins in places
a few minor defects
generally in good condition
Plate 265 x 170 mm.
Sheet 266 x 172 mm.

Pasavant 4; Le Blanc 7;
E. Lincoln, The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker, New Haven, 2001, p. 58-59 (another impression illustrated).

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Lot Essay

A preparatory drawing in red chalk for this print, which also exists in impressions printed over woodblock tones, is in the collection of the Dukes of Devonshire at Chatsworth.
The print is not recorded by Bartsch. Passavant and Le Blanc knew it in one state only, inscribed at lower left with the name of the artist, 'The present sheet doesn't bear this inscription, which is present in all the impressions we have been able to trace in public collections. This leads us to believe that the inscription was removed from the plate in an undescribed second state, of which the present impression is a rare, if not unique, example.
To our knowledge only two other impressions, both with the name of the artist, have been offered at auction within the last thirty years.