Diogenes
1779
Artist, German, 1747 - 1794
Artwork overview
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Medium
aquatint and soft-ground etching printed in green and black
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Credit Line
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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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Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets)
Maria Catharina Prestel, Regina Schönecker, Johann Georg Sturm, Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen, Johann Gottlieb Prestel
1782
Three Lansquenets
Maria Catharina Prestel
1780
Saint Barbara
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