A Gentleman Pilgrim with a Rosary

1740s

Marco Alvise Pitteri

Artist, Italian, 1702 - 1786

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving with etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 43.3 x 34.5 cm (17 1/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 47.8 x 36.1 cm (18 13/16 x 14 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.82.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Le Blanc, no. 93

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein, Harburg, and Maihingen (L. 2715a, not stamped). (C. G. Boerner, New York, 1997 - 2012); purchased 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1854

  • Le Blanc, Charles. _Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels..., vol. 3, no. 93 [as portrait of Albrizzi].

1922

  • Ravà, Aldo. Marco Pitteri incisore Veneziano. Florence, 1922: no. 263

1944

  • Mauroner, Fabio. Incisioni del Pitteri. Bergamo, [1944], pl. 13.

1997

  • C.G. Boerner Neue Lagerliste 109, 1997: no. 71

2012

  • C. G. Boerner. Neue Lagerliste 129. New York, 2012: no. 26

Inscriptions

across lower edge of plate: Io. Baptistae Albrizzi Hier. F. cuius ab humanitate Prototypon, expressam dicat imaginem; lower right in plate: Marco Pitteri Incisor; lower left in plate: Gio Batta Piazzeta pinxit

Watermarks

triple crescent reading IMPERIAL and countermark with cartouche and fleur de lis

Wikidata ID

Q76561173

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