The Great Executioner with the Head of Saint John the Baptist. Artist: Prince Rupert of the Rhine (Bohemian, Prague 1619-1682 Westminster). Dimensions: Sheet: 25 × 17 7/16 in. (63.5 × 44.3 cm)Image: 24 15/16 × 17 3/8 in. (63.3 × 44.2 cm). Date: 1658.Prince Rupert of the Rhine's The Great Executioner is the most ambitious and beautiful mezzotint produced during the seventeenth century. This luscious impression shows the work in all its glory. The deepest tones are rich and velvety. The energetic sweeping marks of the rocker employed to initially darken the copper plate show the rough, experimental nature of the mezzotint technique in its early stages. The print reproduces a painting (now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich) considered at the time to be by Ribera but now thought to be by an artist in his circle. This impression has an illustrious provenance beginning with the Parisian print dealer Pierre Mariette II who inscribed his name and the date on the verso only six years after the p

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The Great Executioner with the Head of Saint John the Baptist. Artist: Prince Rupert of the Rhine (Bohemian, Prague 1619-1682 Westminster). Dimensions: Sheet: 25 × 17 7/16 in. (63.5 × 44.3 cm)Image: 24 15/16 × 17 3/8 in. (63.3 × 44.2 cm). Date: 1658.Prince Rupert of the Rhine's The Great Executioner is the most ambitious and beautiful mezzotint produced during the seventeenth century. This luscious impression shows the work in all its glory. The deepest tones are rich and velvety. The energetic sweeping marks of the rocker employed to initially darken the copper plate show the rough, experimental nature of the mezzotint technique in its early stages. The print reproduces a painting (now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich) considered at the time to be by Ribera but now thought to be by an artist in his circle. This impression has an illustrious provenance beginning with the Parisian print dealer Pierre Mariette II who inscribed his name and the date on the verso only six years after the p

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