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Francesco Bartolozzi, printmaker
Italian, circa 1725 - 1815
The Madonna With the Infant Jesus And St. John the Baptist, after Guercino, from the series Racolta di alcuni disegni del Barbieri da Cento detto il Guercino, 1764
Etching
34.1 x 25.8 cm (image)
Gift of R. E. Lewis, Inc.
after, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino) ~publisher, Francesco Bartolozzi
Artist Credit: all
Artist Biography: Engraver, born in Florence ca. 1725-1728 (authorities disagree re his birth date), worked in Joseph Wagner's shop in Venice from 1745, becoming his principal collaborator. Worked independently in Venice until leaving for Rome in 1760. Settled in London in 1764, moved to Lisbon 1802, where he died on 7 March 1815. See: Lazzaro, Claudia. Eighteenth-Century Italian Prints. Stanford: 1981.~~Reference: De Vesme, A. & A. Calabi. Francesco Bertolozzi. Milan: 1928.~
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