Two Shepherds, 1724

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series Title

"Raccolta di varie stampe a chiaroscuro" (Part I)

Medium

engraving (acquaforte) on laid paper with gilt edges mounted on laid paper with wash borders

Dimensions

image/block: 23.8 × 16.5 cm (9 3/8 × 6 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1952.8.534

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Antonio Faldoni (artist) Italian, c. 1690 - c. 1770

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Inscription

Inscription below, "Francisci Parmensis Schedam hanc, quam possideo, et lineamentis / expono Amice dilectissime Petre Crozat, tibi humiliter devoveo 1724." At bottom left, "Ioan. Antonius Faldoni Sculpsit.", at bottom right, "Antonius M.a Zanetti."; on mount, at lower center, in black ink, in later hand: 49; verso: none

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Ambroise Firmin Didot (1790-1876) [bookplate]. (Pierre Berès Inc., New York); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1952; gift to NGA, 1952.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius