Simon Francois RAVENET (Paris 1737 - Parma 1821) "The Deposition" Original etching and engraving engraved and dated in the lower right plate "Eq.s Ravenet del. Sculp. Parma 1780 ”from a subject by Antonio Allegri known as Correggio (Correggio 1489ca - March 1534). Beautiful specimen printed with perfect inking on laid paper with watermark "Arm with sword in large crowned arms" similar to Heawood 3925, not exactly dated but certainly of eighteenth-century production, trimmed without leaks inside the impression of the slab and applied to a sheet of support in thick laid paper also of the eighteenth century, slightly burnished and with tiny stains on the edges but overall in excellent general condition. As regards the biographical data of Ravenet the young man, various differences of information are found on most of the available repertoires, a detailed analysis of this aspect can be found in the catalog "Art in Parma from the Farnese to the Bourbons" published on the occasion of the exhibition 1979 of the same name. The original painting by Correggio, oil on canvas of 157 x 182cm, was made for the Del Bono Chapel in the Church of San Giovanni Battista in Parma and was a pendant with another altarpiece of similar size dedicated to the "Martyrdom of the Saints Placido, Flavia, Eutichio and Vittorino ", Vasari saw the two canvases and spoke of them with enthusiastic tones already in 1550 in the first edition of the Lives, in 1796 they were stolen by the Napoleonic armies and brought to Paris from where they returned in 1816, to today they are part of the collections of the National Gallery of Parma. Bibliography: Adorni "Art in Parma from the Farnese to the Bourbons: Parma, Palazzo della Pilotta, 22 September-22 December 1979" Bologna 1979 pages 369 - 9. Andrea Muzzi in Fornari Schianchi "Correggio" Milan 2008 pages 276 and 314 Mussini "Correggio translated" Milan 1995 page 141 n ° 180. Spanish in "Correggio and the Ancient" by Anna Coliva Rome 2008 page 108. Measurements in mm: 415 x 475 the sheet (535ca x 765ca the support)