Artist: Claude Mellan (1598-1688)
Title: Anna Maria Vaiani Pittrice et Intagliatrice
Date: XVIIIth-century restrike
School: French, XVIIIth-century
Medium: engraving
Dimensions: 125 x 92mm (plate)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: in the plate in the oval border <<ANNA MARIA VAIANI PITTRICE ET INTAGLIATRICE FIORENTINA>>, in the plate lower left to lower right <<CMellan Gall.s del. et sc. Romae>>, in the plate in the lower border <<A PARIS/Chez Odieuvre Md d’Estampes Quay de l’Ecole vis-à-vis/le Côté de la Samaritaine à la belle Image./A.P.D.R.>>
Condition: good condition on laid paper with thread margins. Published by Michel Odieuvre for l’Europe illustre reusing the original plate.
Description: Portrait of the Florentine painter and engraver Anna Maria Vaiani, bust, facing front; within an oval frame
Reference: IFF Mellan 202 ii/ii. See BM 1856,0913.295 for an impression of the first state.
Provenance: Colette Mas, Paris
