La Dame Venitienne en abit de masque (Venetian Woman in Carnival Dress)

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 × 16.6 cm (9 7/16 × 6 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 38.4 × 26.6 cm (15 1/8 × 10 1/2 in.) (irregular)

  • Accession

    2013.173.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Newcome Schleier-Grasso 2003, no. 13a, 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. 13a (ii/ii).

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 113, fig. 3.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: David. Gen Inv. fecit; lower center in plate: La Dame Venitienne en abit de masque. / Tous les Livres sont pleins des titres de ses Peres. Boil. Sat. V.

Markings

none

Wikidata ID

Q77005854

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