Orthographia Partis Exterioris Templi Divi Petri [Exterior View of Saint Peter's Basilica]

1544/1572

Étienne Dupérac

Etcher, French, c. 1525 - 1601/1604

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 34.3 × 47.1 cm (13 1/2 × 18 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.46.1.7

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rubach, no. 366, state i/ii

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Weingarten Monastery, Swabia, 1632 (title page inscription in the NGA "Speculum"). Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu, Belgium (bookplate: Ex libris Vallis Dei). English export license recording the sale of this volume in 1974 by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd., London; Daniel Donahue, Santa Barbara, CA; (Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C.); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1921

  • Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921: no. 93a.

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur français, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française. Ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch.. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris, 1967: VII.103.50

2016

  • Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.

Inscriptions

Lettered upper left: "Michael.Angelus Bonarota Invenit Stephanus Du Perac Fecit"
Lettered upper left and right: "Orthographia Partis Exterioris Templi Divi Petri in Vaticano"

Wikidata ID

Q77259555

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