Live auction - Lot 626
[Italian]
Niobid Frieze.
Rome, 1656
€ 100 / 120
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Lot description
Etching, 10 x 26 cm, laid paper, unsigned (sm. smudge at lower left corner).
Under passe-partout and frame (not studied outside frame).
Plate 2 (of 5) prints depicting the now lost sgrafitto frieze on the lower register of the Palazzo Milesi in Rome, designed by Polidoro da Caravaggio. Good, strong impression.
Ref. Bartsch XXI:17.