16th cent engraving, Marcantonio Raimondi (1480-1527)
12.75 inches by 18 inches

Based on a design by Raphael
Title: Quos ego (Nettuno calma la tempesta scatenata da Eolo contro la flotta di Enea)(tranlsated: Neptune calming the Tempest which Aeolus raised against Aeneas Fleet)
Year: 1516

The words "ant sal exc" might refers to the printer, Antonio Salamanca

Provenance:This work came out of storage unit in Ossining NY, that belonged to Dr. Gregory Siskind. He inherited the lifetime collection of art of the artist Stella Drabkin and her husband Dr. David L. Drabkin. The collection is large and extensive, including art by Stella Drabkin, Henry Moore, Rufino Tamayo, Lynn Ward, Adolf Dehn and others. These works were in private hands for 60 years.

Marcantonio Raimondi
(Source: Wiki) Marcantonio Raimondi, often called simply Marcantonio (c. 1470/82 - c. 1534), was an Italian engraver, known for being the first important printmaker whose body of work consists largely of prints copying paintings. He is therefore a key figure in the rise of the reproductive print. He also systematized a technique of engraving that became dominant in Italy and elsewhere. His collaboration with Raphael greatly helped his career, and he continued to exploit Raphael's works after the painter's death in 1520, playing a large part in spreading High Renaissance styles across Europe. Much of the biographical information we have comes from his life, the only one of a printmaker, in Vasari's Lives of the Artists.

He is attributed with around 300 engravings. After years of great success, his career ran into trouble in the mid-1520s; he was imprisoned for a time in Rome over his role in the series of erotic prints I Modi, and then, according to Vasari, lost all his money in the Sack of Rome in 1527, after which none of his work can be securely dated.

Good condition overall; some light foxing and reinforcement to the back of the engraving