40 YEARS 40
our fortieth-anniversary show
our fortieth-anniversary show
- French School, Adoration of the Shepherds
- Mantegna, Bacchanal with a Wine Vat
- Robetta, Adoration of the Magi
- Dürer, The Virgin with the Infant Child
- van Leyden, St. Francis of Assisi
- Altdorfer, Dido
- after Raphael, Raphael and His Mistress
- Pencz, The Taking of Carthage
- Brosamer, Nude Woman in Profile
- Barocci, Madonna and Child in the Clouds
- Zucchi, Design for an Ornate Ceiling
- Goudt, Tobias with the Angel
- Della Bella, Le Reposoir du Saint Sacrement
- Rembrandt, Woman Sitting Half-Dressed Beside a Stove
- Challe, Fantasy Capriccio of a Roman Palace
- Piranesi, St. Peter’s
- Bonet, The Lady ta King Coffee; The Milk Woman
- Goya, Felipe IV, Rey de España
- Meryon, Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris
- Whistler, Thames Police
- Manet, Queue Devant la Boucherie (Siège de Paris)
- Doré, Children’s Ward in a London Hospital
- Buhot, La Maison Maudite
- Guérard, Eventail: Oiseaux dans les Roseaux
- Rivière, La Village de La Chapelle
- Auriol, Bois Frissonnants
- Lepère, Les Laveuses (Les Blanchisseuses)
- Toulouse-Lautrec , La Troupe de Mademoiselle Eglantine
- Cezanne, Self Portrait at the Easel
- Sloan, Turning Out the Light
- Goodwin, Durham with the Cathedral
- Villon, Musiciens Chez le Bistro
- Kollwitz, Selbstbildnis
- McBey, Farm Scene at Hatford
- Beckmann, Umarmung (Embrace)
- Drewes, The City (Carcassonne)
- Sutherland, Number Forty-Nine
- de Chirico, Scuola di Gladiatori II
- Friedlander, 3 A.M.
- Marsh, Coney Island Beach
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8. Georg Pencz (ca. 1500-1550) after Giulio Romano The Taking of Carthage |
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The Taking of Carthage
Engraving, 1539, Bartsch 86, Landau 93 iii/vi, 412 x 553 mm., ex collection: Rev. J. Burleigh James (Lugt 1425). A brilliant impression on fine laid paper, the image showing through to the back as in early Marcantonio impressions, trimmed unevenly just inside the platemark, the lower right corner cut in, but the image essentially complete; trace of an old vertical center fold, a few thin spots and a pin hole. Salamanca’s address, which identifies the third state, has been scraped off. The plate was engraved by Pencz in Rome after a drawing, originally for a tapestry, by Giulio Romano, and was published there by Salamanca (active 1530-ca. 1562) shortly after its completion. The plate remained in that city and was re-published by various others (adding their addresses to the image) into the eighteenth century. Such late impressions show considerable wear. Despite its traditional title, the print actually represents the capture of Cartagena (New Carthage) in Spain by the Roman general Scipio Africanus in 209 B.C. during the Second Punic War. It is Pencz’s largest plate, masterfully engraved by an artist most of whose graphic work was on a far smaller scale.
