Il Liceo della Pittura

c. 1638

Pietro Testa

Artist, Italian, 1612 - 1650

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Bert Freidus Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 47.1 x 73.7 cm (18 9/16 x 29 in.)
    sheet: 48 x 73.7 cm (18 7/8 x 29 in.)

  • Accession

    2010.135.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 34, State i/iii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(A & D Martinez, Paris); purchased 2010 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821: no. 34 i/iii

1988

  • Cropper, Elizabeth. Pietro Testa 1612 - 1650: Prints and Drawings. Philadelphia, 1988: no. 41, i/iii

Inscriptions

upper center in plate: INTELLIGENZA / ET / USO / IL / LICEO / DELLA / PITTURA; lower left in plate: La Teorica è per se stesso... / ... pregi di virtu; lower right in plate: Ill. mi R Sig Monsig Girolamo Bonvisi... / ... Humili Ser / Pietro Testa

Watermarks

soldier on an escutcheon

Wikidata ID

Q76557363


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