Children with potted plants (x2)
Circa 1640
Etching and burin
27 x 19 cm, each
Inscribed at the bottom: Guid: Ren / P. in Virido: Mazarino / Petrus Antonius Cotta Sculp. / 1.
Inscribed at the bottom: Guid: Ren / P. in Virido: Mazarino / Petrus Antonius Cotta Sculp. / 6.
Collection stamp of Charles Polycarpe Séchan (1803-1874)
Traces of old mounting on the backs
Nos. 1 and 6 of the suite of ten prints: Angoli dipinti a fresco da Guido Reni nella loggia contigua al giardino del Palazzo dell'Ecc.mo Sig.r Duca Mazarino nel Monte Quirinale. Proofs of the first state, before the change of the engraver's name to Carlo Cesio (for this see P. Fuhring, Print Quarterly, XVII, 2000, p. 81). Examples of this set, especially those of the first state like this, are rare, but beyond that they are very lovely.