Pluto

1781

Maria Catharina Prestel

Artist, German, 1747 - 1794

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    aquatint and etching in dark and light brown

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    mount: 48.7 × 33.7 cm (19 3/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 25.4 × 18.5 cm (10 × 7 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1948.11.264

Associated Artworks

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Three Lansquenets

Maria Catharina Prestel

1780

Saint Barbara

Johann Gottlieb Prestel

1782

Head of a Woman

Johann Gottlieb Prestel

1782


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

in plate, in image, on base of throne: Prestel sc.; in plate, below image, at right: No 6.; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de Jules Romain. / in plate, below image, at left: E. Museo Prauniano.; in plate, below image, at right: M. Cath. Prestel fc. 1781. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Wikidata ID

Q65080338


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