Allegory of human life: the four ages of life.... Lot 204

Allegory of human life: the four ages of life. Bassano, Remondini, 18th century. 4 etching and burin sheets. Folio, mm. 564 x 800; two dies of mm. 534 x 760 and 402 x 520. Good conditions. Margins. Very rare complete set of four ages of life. The prints have the titles in Latin and Spanish below: Pueritia, La Ninez; Juventus, La Juventud; Aetas Virilis, La Virilitad; Senectus, La Vejez. There are two different matrices: one for the great baroque arabescata frame, with triumph of putti, flowers, leafy branches, volutes; the other for the part represented, with the lively allegorical scenes inserted within a more agile ornamental frame. Zotti cites only two of these prints, Puerizia and Vecchiaia, which are at the Bassano del Grappa Museum; however, they are devoid of the great general frame and thus of much smaller dimensions. Carlo Alberto Zotti Minici, The popular prints of Remondini.