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SILVER Seller in Milano, Italy
Burin engraving "Giacomo Filippo Pelandi da Bergomo, Possessor of Excellent Medicinal Secrets and Expert Tooth Extractor" made in 1692 by Georges Tasniere (Besancon 1632 – Turin 1704). Tasniere was a French engraver specialized in portraits and reproduction works by various authors including the Genoese Domenico Piola and various Lombard draftsmen and painters. Active in Turin since 1670, he appeared to have worked for the ducal court. Reproduction engravings with religious subjects and portraits are known, he collaborated as an engraver and illustrator for publishing. In this engraving, taken from a drawing by the Milanese painter, architect and engraver Cesare Fiori (ca. 1636-1702), the half-bust portrait of Giacomo Filippo Pelandi, an Italian doctor of the 17th century, is represented within an oval, born on 10 October 1633. The man of science, with a beard and long hair, is shown in a suit described in detail against a background of dense crossed lines. Below the image on the sides of a shield with a rampant lion, four lines on two columns in Italian describing the skills of the toothpick doctor. An example is preserved in the Davoli collection in Reggio Emilia (Davoli 23670). The extraordinary portrait was already cited by Bortolo Belotti in his Storia di Bergamo e dei Bergamaschi in 1959 and more recently by Francesco Baccanelli in the article "Antidoors, frontispieces, engraved portraits. Artists active in Bergamo between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries at the service of the book". Excellent well contrasted impression. Excellent state of preservation trimmed along the not always visible copper edge. Bibliography: P. Bellini, Dizionario della stampa d'arte, p. 529.
ID: 11318-1696497252-73037
