The Little Black Dog (Il canino nero)

1890s

Giovanni Fattori

Artist, Italian, 1825 - 1908

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on wove paper (proof, before reduction of the plate)

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.5 × 12.6 cm (6 7/8 × 4 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 43 × 31.2 cm (16 15/16 × 12 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2020.86.6

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Baboni 1983, no. 50, undesc. proof

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Luigi Majno senior (1852 – 1915), Milan; by descent to Edoardo Majno, Milan, and to Luigi Majno junior (fl. 1970 – 2003), Milan; (La Portantina di Mattia Jona, Milan); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1958

  • Incisioni della raccolta Majna, Palazzo di Brera, MIlan, 1958, no.

Bibliography

1983

  • Baboni, Andrea.Giovanni Fattori: l'opera incisa. 2 vols. Milan, 1983, no. 50, undesribed proof before reduction of the plate.

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 28

Watermarks

none

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