Lot 41: Agostino Musi, called Agostino Veneziano (1490-1540), after Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540)

Agostino Musi, called Agostino Veneziano (1490-1540), after Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540)
Skeletons (Allegory of Death and Fame) (B. XXVII, 424)
engraving, 1418, a good but later impression of this rare print, trimmed on or just outside the platemark and retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the subject on all sides, the paper split along a vertical central fold, the sheet laid down onto paper, a short tear and a few minor paper splits at lower left sheet edge, some surface soiling, otherwise in good condition
P., S. 316 x 517 mm.

Bruce Davis, Mannerist Prints - International Style in the Sixteenth Century, Los Angeles County Museum, 1988, p. 81 (ill.)

Natalie Strasser, Georg Baselitz, Le Beau Style - Gravures manieristes de la collection Georg Baselitz, Cologne, 2002, no. 24 (ill.).

H. Freiherr von und zu Aufsess (L. 2749)

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This engraving was traditionally thought to be based on a composition by Baccio Bandinelli. It is however very closely related to a drawing by Rosso Fiorentino in the Uffizi (Inv. no. 6499F). An almost erased inscription Augustinus seems to imply that Rosso had already intended his design to be engraved by Agostino.