Saints Peter and Paul
1785
Artist, Bolognese, 1734 - 1802
Printer, Italian, active late 18th century

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 45.9 × 30.2 cm (18 1/16 × 11 7/8 in.)
sheet: 46.6 × 30.2 cm (18 3/8 × 11 7/8 in.) trimmed within platemark
mount: 47.5 × 32 cm (18 11/16 × 12 5/8 in.) -
Accession
2020.46.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
De Vesme, 1906: no. 8, State undesc. iv/iv
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Enrico Cortona, Milan); purchased 2020 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1906
Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906: no. 8, undesc. iv/iv
Inscriptions
lower center in plate: SS. PETRVS, ET PAULVS / Ex insigni Tabula Guidonis Reni, / que asservatur in Pinacotheca Sampieri / Bonomie; lower left in plate: Impressum per Ludovicum Inig; lower right in plate: C. Gandolfi del. et incid 1785; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: D.V. No.8 / Stato iii/3; FORSE [not deciphered] BIANCHI / [not deciphered] / LUDOVICO SINI(?)