The Fall of Troy and the Escape of Aeneas

c. 1545

Giorgio Ghisi

Artist, Italian, 1520 - 1582

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (cut within platemark): 37.9 x 49.2 cm (14 15/16 x 19 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.75.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Boorsch/Lewis 1985, no. 8, State i/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne and Whitchurch-on-Thames; (R. M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara); purchased by NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • Venetian Prints in the Time of Tintoretto, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1985

  • Boorsch, Suzanne and Michal and R.E. Lewis. The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: GIORGIVS MANTVANVS / .F.; lower center in plate: I.B. MNTVANVS IN.

Wikidata ID

Q76341281

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