Ruins near the Sea

c. 1740

Giovanni Francesco Costa

Artist, Venetian, 1711 - 1773

Giovanni Francesco Costa

Attributed to

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    New Century Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 11.75 × 16.99 cm (4 5/8 × 6 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 13.34 × 17.78 cm (5 1/4 × 7 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.176.9

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mason 1979, no. A.1

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Giovanni Forghieri collection, Modena. Cesare Morini, Milan (d. 2013); his widow, Karin Wachtel, Milan; (Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2014 by NGA..

Associated Names

Bibliography

1970

  • Salmasi, L. Dattilo. "Paesaggi con antiche rovine ad acquaforte di Giovan Francesco Costa." Bollettino dei Musei civici veneziani 3-4 (1970): 13, fig. 20.

1972

  • Ferrero, Mercedes Viale. "Appunti di scenografia settecentesca, in margine a rappresentazioni di opere in musica di Gluck, e balli di Angiolini" Chigiana XXIX-XXX (1972-1973), fig. 3. (CHECK; VOLUME NOT AVAILABLE)

1979

  • Mason, Rainer Michael. "A New Catalogue of 'Archaeological' Etchings by Gianfrancesco Costa." Il Conoscitore di Stampe II, no. 41 (1979): no. A.1

Inscriptions

lower right in plate J. F. Costa I. et Sc.

Wikidata ID

Q77008031

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