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Italy, between 1742-1788. Very large oblong etched and engraved pastoral scene, in foreground a standing shepherd with shepherd's pipe addresses two seated peasant women with a jar, resting beside a lake, at background to left an Italian village with church and a river, at bottom signed in the plate 'Zuccarelli Pinx. Berardi Scul'. 36,3 x 48,2 cm.*Thieme-Becker III, 368: 'nach Zuccarelli (vier Landschaften mit Hirten)'. Not in Le Blanc, Nagler. The Italian and British painter Francesco Zuccarelli (Pitigliano 1702-Florence 1788), worked in Rome, settled 1732 in Venice where he became famous as one of the most desired landscape painters of the 18th century; from 1752-1773 he lived in England, where he was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in London; 1773 he settled in Florence. The Italian printmaker Fabio Berardi (Burradi), moved to Venice c. 1742. - Sharp impression on watermarked laid paper. Small margins, right lower blank corner nearly cut to plate-mark, just touching word 'Scul'. On verso handwritten annotation: '1832 18. Dec. .'. [(5857)]. Seller Inventory # 5857
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