Le Masque au caffé (The Masked Man Taking Coffee)

1775

Giovanni David

Artist, Italian, 1743 - 1790

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    New Century Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 24.1 × 16.5 cm (9 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 39.8 × 27.8 cm (15 11/16 × 10 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.173.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Newcome Schleier-Grasso 2003, no. 11a, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Enrico Cortona, Milan); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

2003

  • Grasso, Giovanni, and Mary Newcome Schleier. Giovanni David, Pittore e incisore della famiglia Durazzo. Turin, 2003: no. 11a (ii/ii)

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 111, fig. 2.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate image: Divers / PORTRAITS gravés à l'eau forte / et dediés / à Mr DOMINIQUE CORVI / Peintre Celebre / par / JEAN DAVID GENOIS / Son Éleve. / À VENISE. 1775.; lower left in plate: David Gen. Inv. fecit.; lower center in plate: Le Masque au Caffé. / Laißons-là, croyez-moi, le Monde tel qu'il est. Boil. Sat. 10.

Markings

none

Watermarks

three crescents

Wikidata ID

Q77005846

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