Pietà

1720s

Paul Troger

Artist, Austrian, 1698 - 1762

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.4 x 12.7 cm (7 5/8 x 5 in.)
    sheet: 19.9 x 12.9 cm (7 13/16 x 5 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1999.98.13

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Nagler, no. 13

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alfred Misch, Berlin (Lugt 1816f). Wilhelm Soldan, Berlin, after 1950 (Lugt undescribed). (sale, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 4-5 June 1999, no. 6028); (C. G. Boerner Inc., New York, 1999); purchased 1999 by NGA with funds contributed by The Ahmanson Foundation.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1835

  • Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, no. 13.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Paulus Troger in: fecit.; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Paul Troger; by later hand, lower center verso in ink: Nagler, No. 13; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: I Züstand, vor Winklers Adres: / Wien

Wikidata ID

Q75425074

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