Vidi, quod aperuisset agnus... (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), 1809/1810

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series Title

The Apocalypse

Medium

etching

Dimensions

sheet: 65.4 x 48 cm (25 3/4 x 18 7/8 in.)
plate: 63.2 x 45.5 cm (24 7/8 x 17 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Le Blanc 1854-1888: undesc.

Accession Number

2011.124.1

Artists / Makers

Luigi Sabatelli I (artist) Italian, 1772 - 1850

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: Luigi Sabatelli invenit. ed. inc. Milano; along bottom of plate, Vidi, quod aperuisset agnus...de septem sigillis: et ecce equus albus, et qui sedebat super illum habebat arcum...exivit equus rufus: et qui sedebat super illum, / datus est ei gladius magnus...ecce equus niger: et qui sedebat super illum, habebat stateram...ecce equus pallidus: et qui sedebat super eum, nomen illi mors. Apoc. C. VI

Provenance

Mattia Jona, Milan; purchased 2011 by NGA.

Associated Names

La Portantina di Mattia Jona

Exhibition History

2014: From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800- 1925, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015.

Bibliography

1854: Le Blanc, Charles. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels: undesc.

1978: Paolozzi Strozz, Beatrice. Luigi Sabatelli: Disegni e Incisioni. Florence, 1978: no. 64.