Jacques FORNAZERIS (c. 1585 - 1619): Pavone [Peacock] - 1594
Price: 1400 €
Engraving, 215 x 160 mm. Robert-Dumesnil and IFF undescribed; Pommier, mentioned but not describe; Vesme 69.
Printed at the address of Nicolas van Aelst (1526-1613) and bearing the monogram of Fornazeris lower right (letters I, b and F interlaced). Plate from a suite entitled Vari Uccelai, originally comprising around ten plates.
Fine impression printed on laid paper, trimmed just outside the borderline. Perfect condition. Thin strips of mounting paper on verso edges.
Provenance: Claude-Augustin Mariette, his signature in pen and ink on verso, with date 1689 (Lugt 1786). Claude-Augustin was one of the sons of Pierre Mariette I.
The plates in this series are extremely rare. Vesme writes: "These prints remained unknown to Robert-Dumesnil and all iconographers [...]" (Pommier, p. 354, translated by us).
Reference: H. Pommier, Au Maillet d'argent - Jacques Fornazeris, graveur et éditeur d'estampes, plates not described but mentioned pp. 41 and 354).