Allegory in Honor of the Arrival of Cardinal Franciotti as Bishop of Lucca

1637

Pietro Testa

Artist, Italian, 1612 - 1650

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with burnished tone on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 40.3 × 30.3 cm (15 7/8 × 11 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 41 × 30.9 cm (16 1/8 × 12 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2022.68.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch 1802 - 1821, no. 30

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); purchased 2022 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: no. 30

1988

  • Cropper, Elizabeth. Pietro Testa 1612 - 1650: Prints and Drawings. Philadelphia, 1988: no. 36, i/ii.

Inscriptions

by later hand in graphite on verso: Pietro Testa / cette piece est une des plus rares de / l'oeuvre de le maitre / Bartisch No. 30 / Piece allegorie [not deciphered] sur l'arrivie d'un Cardinal de Rome / gravé par Pietr Testa 1er Etat--B XX f 224 --No. 30 5165; lower center verso in blue pencil: 449

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