Half-Length Figure Reading

Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss

Artist, German, 1740 - 1814

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Andrée and Jonathan Bober

  • Dimensions

    plate: 8.6 x 6.2 cm (3 3/8 x 2 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 9.7 x 7.7 cm (3 13/16 x 3 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2011.121.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Nagler, no. 33, undesc ii/ii


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2012

  • The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2012

Bibliography

1835

  • Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, no. 33, undesc ii/ii.

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: G / CASTILONE

Wikidata ID

Q76560378


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