The Contemplative Life (Vita contemplativa)

c. 1883

Luigi Conconi

Artist, Italian, 1852 - 1917

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Ann and Matthew Nimetz

  • Dimensions

    plate: 36 × 28 cm (14 3/16 × 11 in.)
    sheet: 47.7 × 40 cm (18 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.115.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bianchi-Ginex 1994, no. 26

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800- 1925, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015.

Bibliography

1994

  • Bianchi, Matteo, and Giovanna Ginex, eds.Luigi Conconi: incisore. Milan, 1994, no. 26

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite: vita contemplativa; lower right in graphite:ad carissimo Vicezino Marinaro[?] / e affet. [not deciphered] Bigio / Milano 10. Ag. 907

Wikidata ID

Q77005708

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