Procession of the Doge in the Piazza San Marco, Venice

c. 1565/1580 (this impression 1666)

Jost Amman

Artist, Swiss, 1539 - 1591

Daniel Fievet

Publisher, German

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut printed from 14 blocks on 25 joined sheets of laid paper; title and text printed from letterpress and woodcut blocks

  • Credit Line

    Millennium Funds

  • Dimensions

    overall: 109.2 x 191.8 cm (43 x 75 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2003.125.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 244

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

German private collection; (sale, Christie's London, 3 December 2002, no. 86);(Artemis Fine Arts/Boerners, New York); purchased by NGA, 2003.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

2007

  • The Baroque Woodcut, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007 - 2008

Bibliography

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Jost Amman, Gero Seelig, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 2001, no. 244 (1666 edition with letterpress title above and text below).

Inscriptions

lower center of image: IA

Wikidata ID

Q76346787

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