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| Production People Georges Reverdy (Print made by)  Reverdy, Georges [Reverdino, Cesare] fl 1529–57 Title / Description The Initiares (The Alchemists) Technique engraving Material paper Dimensions 167 x 262 mm (sheet, trimmed close to platemark) Inscriptions Signed lower right: 'C Reuerdinus/f' and inscribed lower left: 'Spes Chimici Vanas buccis medacibus inflant/Dum metamorphosis fingitur [and a Greek word] Provenance Nikolaus Esterházy (Lugt 1966) References Bartsch XV.486.39 Adam Bartsch, Le peintre-graveur, vols. 21, Vienna 1803-21 Baudi di Vesme 1938, no. 56 Alessandro Baudi di Vesme, Catalogo delle incisioni su rame, Maso Finiguerra, Milan 1938 Los Angeles, New York, and Paris 1994, no. 135 (entry by Cynthia Burlingham) The French Renaissance in Prints from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, ed. Karen Jacobson, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France 1994 Leutrat 2007, GR 50 Estelle Leutrat, Les débuts de la gravure sur cuivre en France: Lyon 1520-1565, Geneva 2007 Comment The composition, a satire of alchemy, is attributed to a Northern, probably Netherlandish artist, and also recalls Leonardo's caricatures. Inventory Number 8861 Classification Prints: French: 16th century: Unmounted |
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