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Luigi Rados, Portrait of Antonio Canova, etching, 1825
SILVER Seller in Milano, Italy
SILVER Seller in Milano, Italy
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Luigi Rados (Parma 1773 - Milan 1844) Italian painter and engraver. He trained in Milan at the Brera Academy, specialising in engraving techniques and producing portraits of his contemporaries, often half-length and three-quarter-length. He worked on engraving views and genre scenes and designed headpieces, friezes and vignettes for the official acts of the Cisalpine Republic. The sheet depicts the sculptor Antonio Canova (Possagno 1757 - Venice 1822) from a drawing by Roberto Focosi (Milan 1806 - 1862). The sculptor is portrayed standing half-length facing slightly to the left. In the studio he is surrounded by sculptures, one can recognise in the background the bust of Pope Pius VII completed in 1804 and now in Versailles, the Damosseno commissioned by the papal government for the Vatican Museums and completed in 1806, Domenico Marchetti's engraving plate depicting the detail of the Beneficence in the Funeral Monument of Christina of Austria in Vienna completed in 1811, a bearded man's head possibly copied from the antique Jupiter, and finally behind him a drawing in which we recognise the plan of the Canovian Temple in Possagno. Canova rests his hands on a sculptor's mallet, looking at a sculpture he is working on, only the right foot is visible, it could be that of the Ajax completed in 1812. Rados' dotted technique enhances the details of the face and the elegance of the dress. Bottom right engraved: Luigi Rados engraved, left: Roberto Focosi drew, title in open letters in the centre. Specimen in working proof and letter aventi, before the dedication to Febo d'Adda Vice President of Government and before the signs filling the letters of the title in the bottom centre as in the specimen preserved in the Davoli 26158 collection. Excellent impression. Very good state of preservation, traces of handling. Margins of one centimetre on three sides, trimmed at the stop in the lower margin. Dry stamp not decipherable.
ID: 11318-1700150371-76656
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