Homage to Psyche

c. 1539

Giuseppe Nicolo Vicentino

Artist, Italian, 1470 - 1560

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks in brown and ochre on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 23.6 × 22 cm (9 5/16 × 8 11/16 in.), octagonal
    mount: 32.1 × 28.2 cm (12 5/8 × 11 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.60.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch 1802 - 1821, no. 26

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Arthur Pond, London; (his sale, Cock and Langford, London, 12-14 May 1748, no. 4). (Emmanuel von Baeyer, London); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: no. 26

Inscriptions

by later hand in brown ink on verso: 17 / Pond's Sale / No. 4-7; by later hand, lower verso in graphite: c. 26160 / ii/off

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