The Color Evolution
colored prints through six centuries
colored prints through six centuries
- Anonymous, God Appearing to Moses
- Wolgemut , Christ Heals a Man
- da Trento, The Philosopher
- Goltzius, St. John
- Gaultier, Les Vespres
- Denon, The Abbot Zani
- Janinet, Marie Antoinette
- Janinet, La Prière Interrompue
- Janinet, Venus en Reflexion
- Janinet, Venus Desarment l’Amour
- Janinet, Le Sommeil d’Ariane
- Pollard & Jukes, Vaux-Hall
- Caldwell, The Blue Passion Flower
- Stadler, The White Lily
- Sutherland, American Bog Plants
- Debucourt, La Course, No. 3
- Debucourt, Le Joueur de Cornemuse
- Raffaëlli, L'Actrice en Scène
- Mariani, Woman on a Forest Pathway
- Maurin, Nu de Dos au Miroir
- Aman-Jean, Jeune Fille à La Chevelure
- Auriol, Concours de Dessin du Journal
- Toulouse-Lautrec, Carnot Malade!
- Rivière, La Vague
- Vallotton, Crimes et Châtiments
- Bonnard, Place Clichy
- Ibels, Le Grappin & L'Affranchie
- Roussel, Paysage avec Maison
- Roussel, Amours Jouant
- Müller, Interno (Young Girl with Cat)
- Orlik, View of Mecheln
- DuGardier, Sur la Plage
- Devambez, Poster for Cendrillon
- Robbe, Sardinières au Port
- Beltrand, Le Laboureur
- Delcourt, La Modiste
- Webster , Campo Santa Margarita
- Oppenheimer, The Quartet
- Urushibara , Fruit in a Bowl
- Drewes, Rotterdam
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6. Baron Dominique Vivant Denon (1747-1825) The Abbot Zani, the Famous Antiquarian |
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The Abbot Zani, the Famous Antiquarian
Etching, with tone plate and added wash & white heightening, before 1800, 207 x 136 mm., The Illustrated Bartsch 121-160-.191.
A fine impression printed in black and salmon from two plates on laid paper with good margins, with added white gouache highlights and grey wash. TIB makes no mention of such printing although a registration mark is visible in the impression reproduced. The white highlights and grey wash, however, are not. The print dates from before 1800 although the exact date is unnown. The Abbé Zani became known for his discovery, in the Bibliothèque National collection, of an engraving (actually a niello) by Maso Finiguerra, dating from 1452 and apparently unique, which discovery led to the collecting craze for nielli (and the subsequent fakery of such). The print ostensibly shows him in the very act of making the discovery.