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MARCO ALVISE PITTERI
(Venice 1702 - 1786)
THREE ENGRAVINGS AFTER PIAZZETTA

a) Head and shoulders of a man carrying a staff
To the platemark 440 x 343 mm.
The full sheet measuring 593 x 494 mm.
Watermark AS, as reported for the early impressions of Canaletto's etchings from the 1740s by Dario Succi in the catalogue Canaletto & Visentini, Venezia & Londra, 1986

b) A boy seen head and shoulders holding the pommel of a sword
To the platemark 438 x 347 mm.
The full sheet measuring 592 x 495 mm.

c) Portrait of a man, bust, facing front, wearing a beret and fur-trimmed coat
To the platemark 458 x 350 mm.
The full sheet measuring 715 x 493 mm.

Fine, even impressions, on the same kind of laid paper.

Marco Alvise Pitteri was an Italian engraver of the late Baroque period in his native Venice. He is said to have trained under Giovanni Antonio Faldoni. He gradually perfected his technique until he achieved a high position in the field of engraving. Pitteri developed an original method of engraving, using parallel lines, which are thickened at regular intervals along their length with more deeply engraved sections. He only rarely produced works of his own invention. His production also includes book illustrations, for which he relied on the major masters of 18th century Venetian painting, such as Giambattista Piazzetta, with whom he created several series of engravings. He later produced a large number of works based on paintings by Pietro Longhi.