Querulas praetentat pollice cordas (The Lute Player)

1802

Johann Bernard

Artist, Austrian, 1784 - after 1821

Johann Bernard after Orazio Gentileschi (formerly Caravaggio)

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 59.2 x 43.2 cm (23 5/16 x 17 in.)
    sheet: 63.3 x 69 cm (24 15/16 x 27 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2003.78.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Libreria Antiquaria Soave, Turin); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2003

  • Libreria Antiquaria Soave. Catalogo n. 52. Turin, 2003: no. 109.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Peint par M.A. de Caravage. / Le tableau original se trouve dans la Galerie de S.A. le Prince regnant de Liechtenstein; lower center in plate: Imprimé par Senn. / Querulas pratenat pollice chordas - Ovid; lower right in plate: Gravé par Bernard / A Vienne, au Bureau d'Arts et d'Industrie
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Wikidata ID

Q76346016

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