Artist: Juan José Camarón y Melía (1716-1819) after Francisco Bayeu y Subias (1734-1795)
Title: The Eternal Father (Ceiling of the ante oratory of the King in the Royal Palace of Aranjuez)
Date: after 1791
School: Spanish, XVIIIth-century
Medium: etching
Dimensions: 475 x 450mm (image), 534 x 484mm (sheet)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: in the plate lower border <<Techo del anteoratorio de Rey N.S. en su Real Palacio de Aranjuez, pintado al fresco por D.n Francisco/Bayeu, Pintor de Camara de S.M.>>, in the plate lower right <<Grabada al aqua fuerte p.r Josef Camaron>>
Condition: etching on laid paper with engraved inscription, overall in good condition, minor repaired tears in the sheet at the right and bottom but not encroaching on the image.
Description: Ceiling of the ante oratory of the King in the Royal Palace of Aranjuez. An oil sketch of slightly larger dimensions as the print is in the Brooklyn Museum, New York (see image below)
Provenance: Joel’s auction house, Melbourne, 2019.
