Venus

1781

Johann Gottlieb Prestel

Artist, German, 1739 - 1808

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    aquatint and etching in brown and gray

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    mount: 48.7 × 25.2 cm (19 3/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 37.3 × 33.5 cm (14 11/16 × 13 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1948.11.281

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, below image, at right: No 23.; in plate below image, at center: Dessin de Jacques Ligozzi; in plate, below image, at left: E. Museo Prauniano; in plate, below image, at right: J. T. Prestel sc. Norimb. 1781. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Wikidata ID

Q65079606

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