Gherlandaio, Domenico (Florentine Renaissance painter)

Dry point etching of a portrait of Lorenzo d'Medici's mother Giovanna Tornabuoni.

Image size: 5 1/2” x 3 1/2” ~ 14 x 9 cm.

Framed size: 15” x 18” ~ 38 x 46 cm.

Below etching is a quotation from the Roman writer Maritial 1488.

“Art, could you depict manners and soul, more beautiful on earth no painting would be”

Purchased in Berlin in the 1970’s and framed at my frame shop in the 1990’s to conservation standards under museum grade glass. Please view all detail photos closely before bidding.