Details
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (1480-1534) AFTER JACOPO RIPANDA (ACTIVE 1500–1516)
The Triumph of a Roman Emperor
engraving
circa 1509
on laid paper, watermark Scissors (similar to Briquet 3668)
a very fine, early impression of this very rare, large print
printing sharply, with great clarity, depth and considerable inky relief
trimmed to or just outside the platemark
some small defects and repairs
generally in very good condition
Plate & Sheet 348 x 501 mm.
Provenance
Cabinet Brentano-Birckenstock (18th & 19th century), Vienna and Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 345); their sale, F.A.C. Prestel, Frankfurt am Main, 16 May 1870, lot 2476 ('Superbe épreuve; extrêmement rare de cette beauté.') (Mk. 1615; to Loizelet).
Eugène Loizelet (1842-1882); Paris (not in Lugt).
Paul Prouté (1887-1981), Paris (Lugt 2103c).
Literature
Bartsch 213; Passavant 126; Delaborde 171
M. Faietti, K. Oberhuber, Bologna e l'Umanesimo, Bologna 1988, no. 37, p. 166-168 (another impression illustrated) and no. 92, p. 310-311 (for the drawing).
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Lot Essay

This large early engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi depicts the dense and populous scene of a triumph, presumably of a victorious Roman Emperor, who is however strangely inconspicuous among the many figures while a naked young hero standing the arms of the defeated takes centre-stage.
According to Faietti and Oberhuber (1988), the print can to be dated around 1509-10, just before Marcantonio's arrival in Rome. It is based on a contemporary preparatory drawing by the Bolognese artist Jacopo Ripanda, today at Louvre, Paris (inv. no. 8257).

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