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Giovanni Pietro Possenti

Hercules and Antaeus

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Medium

etching with plate tone on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 19 × 12.9 cm (7 1/2 × 5 1/16 in.)

sheet: 19.2 × 13 cm (7 9/16 × 5 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 6, State only (under Pecham/Possenti, section B)

Accession Number

2012.92.586

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Pietro Possenti (artist) Italian, 1618 - 1659

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, at bottom left: CpP

Provenance

(Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York, as Georg Pecham); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 1, 1977; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Goldschmidt, Inc., Lucien
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821: 3, only (under Master CpP)

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868: 6, only (under Pecham, section B)

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