Frontispiece with a trumpeter sounding trumpets seated on top of a cartouche flanked by trophies, from 'The Twelve Caesars'

Frontispiece with a trumpeter sounding trumpets seated on top of a cartouche flanked by trophies, from 'The Twelve Caesars'

Raffaello Schiaminossi

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

For discussion of the plate used for this print and its verso that was later cut down and used for a painting of the Holy Family with St John the Baptist (ca. 1640) sold at Christie's Amsterdam in 2016 see Jaco Rutgers, 'A Schiaminossi Plate' in Print Quarterly, XXXIV, pp.429-32.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Frontispiece with a trumpeter sounding trumpets seated on top of a cartouche flanked by trophies, from 'The Twelve Caesars'Frontispiece with a trumpeter sounding trumpets seated on top of a cartouche flanked by trophies, from 'The Twelve Caesars'Frontispiece with a trumpeter sounding trumpets seated on top of a cartouche flanked by trophies, from 'The Twelve Caesars'Frontispiece with a trumpeter sounding trumpets seated on top of a cartouche flanked by trophies, from 'The Twelve Caesars'Frontispiece with a trumpeter sounding trumpets seated on top of a cartouche flanked by trophies, from 'The Twelve Caesars'

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