Le Marchand allant à Rialto (The Merchant at the Rialto), 1775

Not on View

series Title

Divers Portraits (Various Portraits)

Medium

etching and aquatint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 24.2 × 16.9 cm (9 1/2 × 6 5/8 in.)

sheet: 38.1 × 27.1 cm (15 × 10 11/16 in.) (irregular)

Credit Line

New Century Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Newcome Schleier-Grasso 2003, no. 15a, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2013.173.5

Artists / Makers

Giovanni David (artist) Italian, 1743 - 1790

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: David Gen. Inv. Fecit.; lower center in plate: le Marchand allant à Rialto. ; OU LE TABARRO. / L'Argent l'argent dit on; sans lui tout est sterile. Boil. Epit. 5

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(Enrico Cortona, Milan); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Cortona, Enrico

Bibliography

2003: Grasso, Giovanni, and Mary Newcome Schleier. Giovanni David, Pittore e incisore della famiglia Durazzo. Turin, 2003.