A Woman Wearing a Straw Hat [Madame de Pompadour?]
mid 18th century
Artist, Italian, 1702 - 1786
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper [proof]
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Credit Line
Purchased as the Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips in honor of Jonathan Bober
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Dimensions
plate: 45.4 × 35.3 cm (17 7/8 × 13 7/8 in.)
sheet: 46.2 × 36.3 cm (18 3/16 × 14 5/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.59.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Le Blanc 1854 - 1888, undesc.
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collection, USA; (David Tunick, Inc., New York); purchased 2017 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1854
Le Blanc, Charles. _Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels: undesc
1944
Mauroner, Fabio. Incisioni del Pitteri. Bergamo, [1944], pl.26.
1981
Tunick, David. Italian Prints of the Eighteenth Century. New York, 1981: no. 199.
Inscriptions
lower right in plate: Marcus Pitteri incid.; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 020 10xm
Watermarks
arrow or flag?