18. Simone Cantarini
(1612-1648)

St. Anthony of Padua Adoring the Christ Child (Large Plate)

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Cantarini, St. Anthony of Padua

St. Anthony of Padua Adoring the Christ Child (Large Plate)

Etching, ca. 1640, 255 x 174 mm., Bartsch 25, Bellini 26 i/iii. Fine, strong impression, showing no wear, on laid paper, trimmed outside the borderline and lacking the lower plate margin; a few wrinkles in the paper. Although the lower plate margin is absent, the quality of the impression indicates that it must be of the first state. The print is accompanied here by a slightly damaged impression of the very deceptive copy, recognizable by several small details, but amazingly close to the original.