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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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