Bacchanal with Altar, Faun, and Silenus

1640

Giovanni Andrea Podestà

Artist, Italian, c. 1620 - 1674

Francisco Salucio

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 26.6 × 39.3 cm (10 1/2 × 15 1/2 in.)
    framed: 44.45 × 59.69 cm (17 1/2 × 23 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.90.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 3, i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750 [canceled for National Gallery of Art venue], National Gallery of Art, Washington; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2021 - 2022, unnumbered catalogue.

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. 3, i/iii

1978

  • The Illustrated Bartsch. New York, 1978 - : no. 3, i/iii

Inscriptions

lower left in image: Magnificentissimo Principi PAVLO IORDANO II. Bracciani Duci / And. P.D.D.D. 1640; lower right in image: Roma Apud Franciscum Salucium

Watermarks

bird on three hills in a circle

Wikidata ID

Q77005325

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