Grosvenor Prints

Today sees the opening of the National Gallery's exhibition Barocci: Brilliance and Grace , celebrating the work of Urbino artist Federico Barocci (c.1533-1612). The following print, a 1649 reissue of a print engraved during Barocci's own lifetime, reproduces Barocci's painting of The Calling of St Peter and St Andrew (Brussels, Musée des Beaux-Arts) :  [The Calling of Peter and Andrew] Serenissimo Illustrissimo Principi Francisco Mariae de Ruvere Urbino Duci VI, Justiciae ac pietatis cultori integerrimo, bonarumq artium admiratori, mecaenati fuo Antonius Carensanus humilli D.D. 1590  Federicus Baroc. Urb. inventor. Adrian Collaert Sculpsit. alla Pace Gio: Iacomo de Rossi formis Romae 1649. Engraving, sheet 435 x 310mm (17 x 12¼"). Trimmed to plate; creasing. [Ref: 27284]   £230

A selection of prints engraved from paintings currently hanging in the National Gallery, London. 1. Leonardo da Vinci, Virgin of the Rocks , from the S. Francesco altarpiece: [The Madonna of the Rocks] [Charles William Campbell after Leonardo da Vinci] [n.d., c.1880] Rare mezzotint on chine collé, platemark 740 x 490mm (29 x 19"). Very large margins. Damage to margins, extending inside platemark bottom right but without damaging chine collé. [Ref: 23369]   £360 2. Willem van Mieris, A Woman and a Fish-Pedlar in a Kitchen (1713), here titled to focus attention       on the inquisitive cat in the foreground:   The Cat. Mieris pinxit. Burnet sculpsit. Published by John Murray Albermarle Street MDCCCXIII [1813]. Engraving, image 280 x 220mm. 11 x 8¾". Minor handling creases; overall a good impression. [Ref: 25935]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT) 3. Rubens, Portrait...