William Unger (1837-1932), after anonymous, after Paolo Veronese (1528-1588)

[Antique print, etching, 1869-1870] The family of Darius before Alexander after Paolo Veronese / Edelmoedigheid van Alexander de Grote, published ca. 1869-1870, 1 p.

Name: [Antique print, etching, 1869-1870] The family of Darius before Alexander after Paolo Veronese / Edelmoedigheid van Alexander de Grote, published ca. 1869-1870, 1 p.
SKU: PR120946-090
Price: 60.00 EUR
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Etching with platemark and broad margins, after the painting of Paolo Veronese.

Veronese’s painting is currently at the National Gallery in London. It was purchased in the late nineteenth century after a long and difficult negotiation between the previous owner, Count Vettore Pisani, and the first director of the National Gallery, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake. The negotiation started on 16th November 1856 and ended on the 1st of March of the year thereafter. It was brought on by the director’s assistant, Otto Mündler, who wrote heartfelt notes on his diaries and kept Eastlake updated on the constant changing of mind of the count. The day Mündler could finally see the painting taken down in the Pisani palace in Venice he noted: ‘There was one cry of admiration when the picture came down and recieved light from above, which it had never had […]’. Finally, the painting left for London the 2nd of April 1857. At Palazzo Pisani is now a replica, an almost conteporary copy of the original by Francesco Minorelli.

The original composition for this etching is yet another anonymous copy after Veronese at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Kassel (GK 509), as the scene is slightly narrower than the London canvas.

The etcher, William Unger, was in Kassel between 1869 and 1870, when he realized printed copies of the paintings in the Old Master gallery.

Alexander de Grote – Darius – klassieken – classical antiquity – Darius III, Alexander.

SKU: PR120946-090

Etching on thick paper, total 265 x 305 mm. In good condition, edges of the paper with some smudges and foxing.

€ 72,60 (€ 60,00 ex. btw)

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