Skeleton of a Gurnard

1620-1621

Teodoro Filippo di Liagno, called Napoletano

Associated Names
Teodoro Filippo di Liagno

Artist, Italian, 1589 - 1629

The image shows a detailed drawing of a fish skeleton in a monochromatic color palette. The fish skeleton extends from the head to the tail, positioned diagonally across the image. Below the fish, there is text in Latin, and the artist's inscription "Pesce Cappone" is near the lower right of the fish's head.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Funds from Virginia Mars

  • Dimensions

    plate: 9.2 × 14.5 cm (3 5/8 × 5 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 11.4 × 17.4 cm (4 1/2 × 6 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.5.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chiarini, no. 435

  • Series Title

    Animal Skeletons

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2025

  • Little Beasts: Art Wonder and the Natural World, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2025.

Bibliography

2007

  • Chiarini, Marco. Teodoro Filippo di Liagno detto Filippo Napoletano, 1589-1629: Vite e opere. Florence: Centro Di, 2007, no. 435.

Inscriptions

in plate, at bottom: Me prisci ignorant, Iuvenes dixere CAPONEM, / Forsam era, CYTARUS, MULUS ego, aut CUCULUS; in plate, at right center: Pesce cappone; bottom left corner of sheet, in pen and ink by a later hand: 25[?]

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