
La Vergine col Bambino
Il Virgin and Child with the infant Saint John the Baptist c1836 by German Engraver Franz Hanfstängl (1804 – 1890) from a painting by Italian Painter Lorenzo Lotto (1480 – 1556)
The Virgin and child with the infant Saint John the Baptist, with the Christ child lying on her lap and turning to kiss the Baptist c1836 by German Engraver Franz Hanfstängl (1804 – 1890) from a painting by Italian Painter Lorenzo Lotto (1480 – 1556)

Questa è una riproduzione di arte digitale ritoccata di vecchi maestri di un'immagine di pubblico dominio che è disponibile per l'acquisto come a ha dipinto le pinup per la commedia di Errol Flynn Never Say Goodbye.
Informazioni di seguito Cortesia Wikipedia.org
Hanfstaengl originated from a commoner family and in 1816 came on the recommendation of the town-school-teachers into the drawing-class of the leave-day school at Munich led by Hermann Josef Mitterer. He was instructed in lithography, he had contact with Alois Senefelder and studied from 1819 per 1825 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Nel 1826, he went to Dresden and began his great work, completed in 1852, of copying in lithograph the canvases of the Dresden Gallery. Tra 1835 e 1852 Hanfstängl brought out about 200 lithographic reproductions of masterworks from the Dresden picture-gallery, and published them in a portfolio. When he returned to Munich, he left his establishment at Dresden to his brothers Max and Hans.
Nel 1833 he founded in Munich a lithographic establishment of his own, which he operated until 1868, and to which he later attached a fine art printing shop and (nel 1853) a photographic workshop. Hanfstaengl won for himself much popularity as the portrait lithographer of Munich society, being nicknamed ‘Count Litho’. Dopo, he became court photographer and produced portraits of distinguished persons, amongst others of the young King Ludwig II, of Franz Liszt, Otto von Bismarck and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Nel 1858 Hanfstaengl tutored renowned French photographer Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon.
He influenced his brother-in-law, the Austrian physician, inventor and politician Norbert Pfretzschner senior in the evolving of the photographic dry-plate in 1866. He was married to Franziska Wegmeier (1809–1860), by whom he became the father of Edgar Hanfstaengl. Another family member, Erwin von Hanfstaengl, nel 1873 married the opera-singer Marie Schröder.
