PROVENANCE
Prints and a Few Drawings from Great Collections of the Past
  1. Master MR, Christ on the Cross
  2. Dürer, St. Bartholomew
  3. Dürer, Christ Before Caiaphas
  4. Raimondi, Philosophy
  5. Raimondi, Façade with Caryatids
  6. Beham, Job Conversing
  7. Beham, Satyr Sounding a Horn
  8. Beham, Peasant Couple Walking
  9. Caraglio, Martyrdom of St. Paul
  10. Aldegrever, Standard Bearer
  11. Pencz, Feeding the Hungry
  12. Pencz, Artemisia Preparing
  13. Falconetto, Tomb Surmounted
  14. Claesz, St. Peter Seated
  15. Treu, Noble Dancers
  16. Master FP, Hercules Killing
  17. Brun, February
  18. Solis, Arithmetria
  19. de Bruyn, The Circumcision
  20. Sadeler, Virgin and Child
  21. Goltzius, A Young Man
  22. Matham, The Planets
  23. Brizio, Extensive Landscape
  24. van de Velde, Fête Villageoise
  25. van de Velde, Backgammon
  26. van Uyttenbroek, Tobias
  27. van Uyttenbroek, Bacchus
  28. Rembrandt, The Small Lion Hunt
  29. Hollar, Woman with Headdress
  30. Saftleven, Dutch Peasant
  31. Ostade, Bust of a Peasant
  32. Stoop, A Grazing Horse
  33. Fyt, Set of Animals
  34. Bega, The Three Drinkers
  35. Anonymous, Landscape
  36. Nanteuil, Charles Benoise
  37. Nanteuil, Cardinal Mazarin
  38. Nanteuil, Pierre Seguier
  39. van Vliet, St. Jerome Sitting
  40. Cossin, Ornament Design
  41. Sirani, St. Eustace
  42. Somer, Hagar and Ishmael
  43. Daullé, La Muse Clio
  44. Tiepolo, The Holy Family
  45. MacArdell, Hannah, Mrs. Horneck
  46. Laurie, Elizabeth, Dutchess
  47. Denon, Village Scene
  48. Charlet, Les Français
  49. Pieraccini, Holy Family
  50. Daumier, Y n’y a rien comm’
  51. Daubigny, Les Ruines du Chateau
  52. Daubigny, Lever de Lune
  53. Meryon, Le Petit Pont
  54. Rops, La Poupée du Satyre
  55. Whistler, Old Hungerford Bridge
  56. Legros, Un Coin de Rivière
  57. Buhot, Frontispice
  58. Forain, La Rencontre
  59. Pennell, Hampton Court Palace
  60. Delâtre, Silhouette de Femme

5. Marcantonio Raimondi (ca. 1480-1527/34)
after Raphael (?)
Façade with Caryatids

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Raimondi, Façade with Caryatids

Façade with Caryatids

Other Images:

Engraving, 298 x 230 mm., Bartsch 538. Fine, early impression on laid paper, the image coming through verso as in the earliest Marcantonio impressions, trimmed within the platemark on the topmost and bottommost engraved lines and outside the image at the sides; a tiny nick at the bottom. This supposed architectural image is made even stranger by the appearance of the two figures in the doorway whose comparative size shows the caryatids to be enormous and the bust on the second tier even more gigantic. One wonders if the artist actually saw something on this scale or if he was enhancing the antique to a monumentality it may never have had. An intriguing print and, apparently, a rare one, as no other impression has been seen at public sale for at least twenty years.

Provenance:
The Reverend J. Burleigh James (Lugt 1425). James was a minister of the Church of England in the mid-nineteenth century but had graduated university as a Master of Arts. He resided at Knowbury Park in Shropshire, England and, though the source of his wealth is apparently unknown, he must obviously have been wealthy because he amassed an enormous collection. It was sold in 1877 at Sotheby’s in three sessions and comprised over 5000 lots (a lot may have been more than one print) ranging from Dürer to Whistler, many of the prints from earlier, famous collections.