$1,500.00
This diptych brings together two copperplate prints by the French engraver Benoît-Louis Prévost (1735-1809). Printed in the Late 18th Century, the prints were originally created for Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie. Each plate depicts diagrammed illustrations of famous sculptures from Classical Antiquity, specifically the Gladiator and the Farnese Hercules. The engravings are matted under glass in a gilt-wood frame.
Frame dimensions:
26.5 in. width
21 in. height
1 in. depth
Condition notes:
In fair condition. These are antique prints with wear consistent with the papers' age and use. There's visible warping to the paper as to be expected. Some spotting to matte board and scuffs to glass.
$9,800.00
Titled "1934," this black-and-white pigment print is a striking portrait by the renowned photographer Christopher Makos. It is an intimate headshot of a young man. The portrait first appeared in Makos's 2004 book "Exhibitionism," which featured sensual photographs of men....
$4,400.00
Richly textured and colored in a bold verdigris hue, these resin casts are replicas of now iconic Ancient Roman Flavian marble busts. The pair are made of resin and painted to resemble the natural oxidation of metal. Dimensions:17.5 in. width11.5...
$2,800.00
Hand-crafted in the 19th Century in France, this antique vertical wall mirror has a silver gilt frame with an ogee bevel. The glass and wood have visible aging that adds to the mirror's character and tactile sense of history. Dimensions:33...
$9,800.00
These six intaglio illustrations come from "Storia naturale degli uccelli" ("Natural History of Birds), a book written by the Italian ornithologist Francesco Saverio Manetti (1723-1785) in collaboration with artists Lorenzo Lorenzi and Violante Vanni. Produced in 1765-1775, they are engravings...
