Doctor Sbaraglia
1716
Artist, Bolognese, 1671 - 1749
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
Gift of James A. Bergquist, Boston, in honor of Shelley R.Langdale
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Dimensions
image: 18.9 × 14.2 cm (7 7/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
sheet: 23.8 × 19 cm (9 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2020.149.14
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Catalogue Raisonné
De Vesme 1906, no. 3, State ii/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); gift to NGA, 2020.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1906
Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906: no. 3, ii/ii
Inscriptions
lower center in cartouche: Haec est Sbaralae Medici Doctoris imago / Ingenio celebris, consilio, arte, libris. / Rapta Anima est Brutis, tribuit quam Numen amicum. / Reddit hic, hic ergo Numinis instar erit.; lower center below image: Donatus Creti Bononiensis delineavit et sculpsit 1716; by later hand, verso in pen and ink: Ch [not deciphered]; by later hand, lower center verso in blue pencil: 21 C
Watermarks
anchor in a single circle with a pendant cartouche reading GG