ZUCCARELLI – SIMONINI. Scena di battaglia a cavallo.

Venice, Wagner, before 1752

Etching and burin with trace of coloring. Platemark 261x378 mm. Inscriptions on the lower margin: in the center “Guerrier vago d'onor morte non teme”; on the left “Franc. Simonini inven.”; to the right “Zuccarelli Sculp. Appo Wagner Venezia C.P.E.S.” Print in antique frame with original glass. Fine specimen.

Beautiful proof, with traces of contemporary coloring, in blue tones for the horses and in orange tones for the fortifications in the background. Scene derived from Francesco Simonini, the famous eighteenth-century "battaglista" who renewed the genre. Succi: " Con linguaggio disinvolto e pittoresco Zuccarelli fissa la foga marziale dei combattenti nelle tonalità argentine della competizione, di gusto tipicamente veneto pdf freschezza inventiva e per leggerezza d’intaglio.” [With casual and picturesque language Zuccarelli fixes the martial ardor of the fighters in the silvery tones of the competition, with a typically Venetian taste for inventive freshness and lightness of carving.] The date comes from Zuccarelli's collaboration with Wagner, which ended in 1752 when the Venetian artist went to London, where he remained for a decade