Bernardo Daddi

Bernardo Daddi, known as Master of the Die, after Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi

circa 1512 - 1570

River Gods Consoling Peneus for the Loss of his Daughter, Daphne, from The Story of Apollo and Daphne (Bartsch XV.198.22)

Engraving, 1530-60, a very good impression of the first state (of two), printing with strong contrasts and sculptural effect, on laid paper with a Paschal Lamb in a Circle watermark (cf. Briquet 49), unframed

sheet: 244 by 177mm 9⅝ by 7in