Caravaggio

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da

Roman, 1571 - 1610

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Printed with black ink on light tan paper, this horizontal etching and engraving shows a young man with long hair, Jesus, sitting at a table with one hand lifted. Two people sitting at the table react, and a third stands on the far side, near Jesus’s shoulder. The front corner of the table is near and parallel to the lower right corner of the print. The table is covered with a cloth and holds a bowl of fruit, a roasted game bird, vessels, and a chunk of bread. At the center of the composition, Jesus holds up his right hand, to our left, and hovers his left hand over the table. His eyes are cast down or closed, and he leans slightly to our right. The two men at the table have beards and short, wavy hair. The man to our right holds both arms straight out to his sides as he looks toward Jesus’s hands. A shell is affixed to the front of his cloak. The other man wears tattered robes and sits on our side of the table in a U-shaped wooden chair. He grips the arms of the chair with both hands and juts his head forward, also staring at Jesus’s hands. The fourth person stands and looks down at Jesus in profile, mouth slightly parted. The background is shaded with parallel and overlapping hatching. Inscriptions are printed across the lower margin with “M. age dicarauage In. P. Fatoure: G. giovane f.” to the lower left, “Firmat et accendit diuino Lumine Corda, Cristus quem nostuns augustum frangere panem” at the center, and “Luc 24” in the lower right.
Pierre Fatoure, Gabriel Lejeune, The Supper at Emmaus, c. 1609/1610, etching and engraving on laid paper, Purchased as the Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann, by Exchange, 2018.105.1

The Supper at Emmaus

Pierre Fatoure, Gabriel Lejeune · c. 1609/1610 · etching and engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2018.105.1

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Angelo Campanella, Antonio Capellan, Giovanni Volpato, Domenico Cunego, Camillo Tinti, Francois Joseph Lonsing, Giuseppe Sforza Perini, Francesco Piranesi · published 1780/1792 and 1793 · 2 books bound in 1 vol: part 1: ill: 40 etching and engravings (4 double-page, rest full-page, versos blank) all by Francesco Piranesi with 19 after Tommaso Piroli, 14 after Ludovico Carazzari, 3 after Bernardino Nocchi, 2 after Lorenzo Rocchegiani, 1after after Baptiste Gagneraux; part 2: ill: 40 etching and engraving (including title page, all full-page versos blank) after paintings by various artists with 21 by Domenico Cunego, 8 by Giovanni Volpato, 4 by Antonio Capellani, 3 by Camillo Tinti, 1by Angelo Campanello, 1 by François Lonsing, 1 by Joseph Perini ·  Accession ID  1985.61.2615

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Woman Playing a Lute (from a painting by Caravaggio), School of Athens (detail from a painting by Raphael), and the Virgin Blessing a Saint (from an unknown painting by Carlo Maratta)

Jean-Claude-Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non · 1771 · etching and aquatint ·  Accession ID  1950.1.118.73

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Supper at Emmaus

Jean-Claude-Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non · 1771 · etching and aquatint ·  Accession ID  1950.1.118.49

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The Deposition

Jean-Claude-Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non · 1771 · etching and aquatint ·  Accession ID  1950.1.118.75

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Peintures de la Sala Borgia, au Vatican, de l'invention de Raphael; Peintures de la Villa Lante, à Rome, de l'invention de Jules Romain; Peintures de la Ville Altoviti; Peintures du Cabinet de Jules II, au Vatican, de l'invention de Raphael; Raccolta di Alcuni Disegni...Guercino

Francesco Rosaspina, Pietro Santo Bartoli, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Tommaso Piroli · 1764 (actually first Paris edition 1800-1810) [Piranesi] and 1803 [Piroli] · 5 works bound in 1 vol: ill: 1st part: 12 plates (2 to a page), versos blank; 2nd part: 16 plates (2 to a page), versos blank; 3rd part: 13 plates (1 full-page, 6-2 to a page, 3-3 to a page), versos blank; 4th part: 19 plates (7 full-page, 12-2 to apage), versos blank); 5th part: title page and 46 plates (35 full-page, 6 double-page, 2-2 to a page, 4-4 to a page), versos blank ·  Accession ID  1983.49.76

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