Giovanni Antonio de Sacchis (1484 - 1539)
(also known as Il Pordenone
The name Il Pordenone comes from Latin Portus Naonis, meaning "port on the Noncello River" (North East Italy) where he created a famous fresco.
A drawing of a climbing nude woman seen on the back was reattributed to this innovative sixteenth-century painter. Stylishly it is strongly reminding of the famous fresco’s (marriage of Amor and Psyche) in Rome’s Villa Farnesina by Rafael.
Before moving in the 1530s to Venice—where he became a rival of Titian—Pordenone executed altarpieces for churches in his hometown and the surrounding area. Drawer in the style of red chalk drawings by (and mistaken for) his later colleague Giovanni Barbierri (aka Il Guercino) (1591-1666).
The original drawing is kept in the Albertina Museum in Vienna, a copy by an unknown drawer after (but not as good) of the original, in Haarlem Tyler’s Museum in the Netherlands (below).
The picture of the original igniting my curiosity was found recently as eBay offer and said to have been published as “Farbfoto-lithographie auf Papier” (30,5 x 21 cm) by Joseph Meder und distributed by Anton Schroll und Co. in Wien, in 1923. This century old (antique !) edition has an authentication blind stamp (“Trockenstempel”) below right.
More recently however the original drawing is published as “Hochwertige Kunstdruck” by Vienna Kunstverlag Reisser (sheet size 35 x 27 cm. (image 27,2 x 18 cm.
The choice is all yours !
---------------------------
The Reisser printing and publishing company was founded by the father of Vienna printmaker Issa Reisser (1895-1955) who is represented with a fine and special selection of her woodblock prints (including this lovely "Sous les toits de Paris") in the Home of German women printmakers:
No comments:
Post a Comment