POIRET, VINCENZO: VIEW OF ZAGREB
Inventory number 323
Original title: Agram, Hauptstadt von Kroatien
Publishing year: 1854
Place of publishing and publisher: Wien (?)
Format: 16 x 31 cm
Technique: Steel engraving
The view was created according to the drawings of V. Poiret, and shows Grič, i.e. the Upper Town from the Southwest, so that Kaptol and the cathedral are almost completely obscured. It looks like the view "Upper Town at the Beginning of the 19th Century" from the book "Old Zagreb" by Gjuro Szabo, where there is no author's name but is much more detailed and carved from the lower level so that the tower of St. Mark is not visible, but because of that one can see better the access to Upper Town.
POIRET, VINCENZO (VINCENT, VICKO)
POIRET, VINCENZO (VINCENT, VICKO) (1813-1867), an Italian painter, originally from France. He came to Dalmatia in 1838. In Zadar, he sketched and illustrated church compositions, miniatures, portraits, vedute and ethnographic details of the local population of relatively impoverished Dalmatia. In 1846, in collaboration with the brothers Battara and Carraro, he began printing the coloured publication La Dalmazia descritta, with 48 tables depicting Dalmatian national costumes. He is mentioned by authors from the second half of the 19th century, who cite his work when referencing steel engravings or other forms of vedute woodwork or ethnographic elements of the cities on the Adriatic. An example of this is F. Zahn, who even signed his own works with Poiret’s workshop, and published in Poiret’s birthplace Trieste for the Trieste Lloyd in 1854. His works were also most probably signed by Cicarelli and the Dubrovnik printer Martecchini.
