Gaspar Gribolari brocanteur à Padoue (Gaspar Gribolari, Secondhand Dealer in Padua), 1775

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series Title

Divers Portraits (Various Portraits)

Medium

etching and aquatint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.9 × 16.7 cm (9 7/16 × 6 9/16 in.)

sheet: 38.7 × 27.2 cm (15 1/4 × 10 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

New Century Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Newcome Schleier-Grasso 2003, no. 16a, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2013.173.6

Artists / Makers

Giovanni David (artist) Italian, 1743 - 1790

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: David Gen: Inv. fecit; lower center in plate: Gaspar Gribolari Brocanteur à Padoüe / Ses mots ont dans sa bouche une emphase admirable. Boil. Sat. 10.

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Cortona, Enrico

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

2003: Grasso, Giovanni, and Mary Newcome Schleier. Giovanni David, Pittore e incisore della famiglia Durazzo. Turin, 2003: no. 16a (ii/ii).

2021: Hoisington, Rena.Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 119, fig. 10.