Skeleton of a Camel

1620-1621

Teodoro Filippo di Liagno

Artist, Italian, 1589 - 1629

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G24

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Funds from Virginia Mars

  • Dimensions

    plate: 14.6 × 9.4 cm (5 3/4 × 3 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 17.4 × 11.4 cm (6 7/8 × 4 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2023.5.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chiarini, no. 419

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hill-Stone, Inc., South Dartmouth, MA); NGA purchase, 2023.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2007

  • Chiarini, Marco. Teodoro Filippo di Liagno detto Filippo Napoletano, 1589-1629: Vite e opere. Florence: Centro Di, 2007, no. 419

Inscriptions

in plate, at top: Haec tibi post multos gibbose CAMELE labores / Et sitis atq[ue] famis grata datur requies; in plate, at bottom center: Camello; in plate, at bottom right: F; bottom right corner, in pen and ink by a later hand: 19

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