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Petites grotesques
Jacques Androuet Ducerceau (French, about 1515–about 1585)
After: Nicoletto da Modena (Italian, active 1500–1512)
After: Enea Vico (Italian, 1523–1567)
Publisher: Luca Bertelli (Italian, active about 1550–1580)
After: Nicoletto da Modena (Italian, active 1500–1512)
After: Enea Vico (Italian, 1523–1567)
Publisher: Luca Bertelli (Italian, active about 1550–1580)
after 1562
Place of Publication: Venice?, Italy?
Medium/Technique
Set of etched title page and 59 etchings
Dimensions
Overall: 20.3 x 15.9 x 3 cm (8 x 6 1/4 x 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession Number31.1270
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
[Venice?] Luca Bertelli, after 1562
Catalogue Raisonné
Berlin 286[?--describes Paris 1562 ed. and Bertelli addition]; BN, Inventaire 16th, I, pp. 67-68; Geymüller, pp. 316-17
Description(Venice?: Luca Bertelli, after 1562) Quarto; 60 leaves; modern gilt-stamped green vellum boards.
It is difficult to determine makeup and date of this collection. Each plate is mounted separately on the leaves of the album. The first plate is the title, but with the title cartouche blank. Below is the publisher's imprint "Lucæ Bertelli formis." Bertelli worked in Venice and Padua, ca. 1560-1590s. The first edition of the "petites" grotesque set was published in Orléans in 1550; a second one (Berlin 286) is cited as Paris 1562. Presumably the plates came to Bertelli after that; a provisional date after 1562 has been assigned.
As noted on individual folios, some of Ducerceau's designs were copied from motifs by Nicoletto da Modena. The BN Inventaire cites "a great number" copied from Enea Vico.
It is difficult to determine makeup and date of this collection. Each plate is mounted separately on the leaves of the album. The first plate is the title, but with the title cartouche blank. Below is the publisher's imprint "Lucæ Bertelli formis." Bertelli worked in Venice and Padua, ca. 1560-1590s. The first edition of the "petites" grotesque set was published in Orléans in 1550; a second one (Berlin 286) is cited as Paris 1562. Presumably the plates came to Bertelli after that; a provisional date after 1562 has been assigned.
As noted on individual folios, some of Ducerceau's designs were copied from motifs by Nicoletto da Modena. The BN Inventaire cites "a great number" copied from Enea Vico.
ProvenanceGeorges Mathias, Paris, from whom purchased (through Colnaghi, London) by MFA, July 1, 1931.