Emin Principi Leandro Coloredo Card by Dorigny Nicolas After Maratta Carlo (1 results)

IGNATIUS AND CHARLES. Engraved broadside, 49 x 28 cm to platemarks, on sheet 53.3 x 31 cm. An excellent, crisp copy; very minor toning and reinforcements to a few blank areas of margin, otherwise very good. Commemorative broadside dedicated by the celebrated publisher-engraver Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi (1627-1691) to Cardinal Leandro Colloredo (1639-1709), as a "skillfully engraved perpetual monument" to the clergyman. As the dedication is signed by Rossi as well as bearing his imprint, the print can be dated to between 1686 (when Colloredo became a Cardinal) and 1691 (Rossi's death). The scene shows the Virgin Mary with the Infant Christ, surrounded by angels as well as two full-length saints: Charles Borromeo (canonized 1610) and Ignatius of Loyola (canonized 1622). Ignatius, wearing a chasuble, points to the pages of his own Rules of the Society of Jesus, while Borromeo, the great advocate of the poor, supplicates the Virgin with open palms alongside a tablet engraved with his personal motto, 'humilitas'. The scene is a somewhat free interpretation of a painting in the Church of Santa Maria in Vallicella (Rome) by Carlo Maratta, the leading painter of late Baroque Rome as explained in the caption below, which praises the talented paintbrush of Maratta. In particular, the engraver Nicolas Dorigny (1658-1746) certainly took liberties with the head and face of Loyola, which is here somewhat more interesting than in Maratta's original. OCLC shows 2 copies worldwide: at the Newberry ("trimmed within the platemark") and at the Biblioteca Casanatense (digitized, in very poor condition, lacking the entire lower panel).