Diogenes

1779

Maria Catharina Prestel

Artist, German, 1747 - 1794

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    aquatint and soft-ground etching printed in green and black

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    mount: 33.6 × 48.7 cm (13 1/4 × 19 3/16 in.)
    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 18.3 × 26.4 cm (7 3/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1948.11.272

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

Exhibition History

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Inscriptions

in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de George Vasari d'apres Raphaël d'Urbino / Gravé d'après l'original du Cabinet de Monsieur Praun a Nuremberg.; in plate, below image, at left: M. Cath. Prestel sc. 1779; in plate, below image, at right: No. 14 [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Wikidata ID

Q65080365


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