Pièta, with the bare Arm, c1515
Engraving
31.4 x 22.2
£ 1,000.00
There are two ‘Raimondi’ versions of this scarce plate, both of uncertain attribution. Bartsch considers the Pièta, with the bare Arm as a very fine work by Raimondi (Passavant thinks...
There are two ‘Raimondi’ versions of this scarce plate, both of uncertain attribution. Bartsch considers the Pièta, with the bare Arm as a very fine work by Raimondi (Passavant thinks it is a fine work by Barthel Beham). The second plate, The Virgin lamenting the dead Christ, by another hand, and with the plate ‘signed’ with a blank tablet (one of the ways that Raimondi signed his plates) differs in several ways, the details of Christ’s head, the landscape, the addition of a tree where the first has only a stump; and the Virgin no longer has a ‘bare’ right arm. It is encased in a sleeve. Both derive from the same Raphael drawing.