Portrait of Michelangelo Buonarroti

by Giorgio Michelangelo. Ghisi, after Marcello Venusti

$3,600 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

SOLE STATE. Watermark unidentified partly obscured by the image . A good impression, trimmed just within the image, “Georgius Mantovanus Fecit” lightly written in ink next to Ghisi’s monogram. Verso soiled, early crease visible on verso only. With stippling still visible in the face but no visible ruling in the inscription. Early impressions are rich with sharp contrasts, much stippling on the face, and ruled guidelines for the

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