1. Crescenzio d'Onofri
(1632-after 1712)
Landscape with Battus Being Turned to Stone

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d'Onofri, Landscape with Battus

Landscape with Battus Being Turned to Stone

Etching from Set of Views with Mythological Episodes, Bartsch 9, TIB 9 i/ii, 316 x 452 mm. A fine, rich impression before the rework on laid paper trimmed along the platemark, which is visible in places, the image and text complete; trace of an old vertical fold, a few edge nicks and thin spots, backed. Battus was turned to stone by Mercury for breaking his vow of silence about Mercury having stolen Apollo's cattle. But the legend implies the setting, a glorious depiction of the Roman Campagna, d'Onofri's favorite subject. The village in the distance is San Vito, Romana, with the Theodoli Castle, in which there are paintings by d'Onofri related to these etchings. That village is evident in many of the paintings, drawings and prints by the artist, memory indeed! D'Onofri was the student of Gaspard Dughet who was in turn, strongly influenced by Poussin and Claude Lorraine, and thus the tradition of the Classic Landscape, based on the Roman Campagna and the setting for Roman mythology, was directly passed.

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