1676 Castor, Cybele, Fedora, Agrippina, Franck after Sandrart, folio engraving, mythology

Fine Folio copper engraving incorporating busts of Castor, Cybele, Fedora and Agrippina.

Franck, Johann (fl.1659-1690), attributed to:

After Joh. Sandrart

Engraving

37.5 x 24.2 cm

Published 1679.

In very good overall condition.

Sometimes referred to as the “German Vasari,” Joachim von Sandrart, born in Frankfurt, trained first as a printmaker, notably in Nuremberg, and in Prague with Aegidius Sadeler. After a long and successful career in the foremost artistic circles in England, Italy, and the Netherlands, he returned to Germany and painted for Emperor Ferdinand III, for which he was ennobled in 1673.