Nude Man Blowing a Conch

1735

Giovanni Antonio Faldoni

Artist, Italian, c. 1690 - c. 1770

Giovanni Antonio Faldoni after Parmigianino

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving printed in sanguine on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.7 x 21.3 cm (11 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 31.6 x 23 cm (12 7/16 x 9 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2006.162.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 19, 1978; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

Lower center in plate: Venerabili Potentissimo Principi Joseph Vincislao de Lichtenstein / Generali et Colonello & c. S.M.C.C. Lepidissimi Pictoris Francisci / Mazzuolae Parmensis Schedon hanc Humiliter donat, et dicat CDDCCXXXV.; lower left in plate: Ioan. Anton Faldoni Sculpsit.; lower right in plate: Antonius Maria Zanetti.

Wikidata ID

Q76341344

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