Dying Epaminondas

1782

Johann Gottlieb Prestel

Artist, German, 1739 - 1808

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    aquatint and etching in dark, medium, and light brown

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    mount: 33.6 × 48.7 cm (13 1/4 × 19 3/16 in.)
    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 20.4 × 26.9 cm (8 1/16 × 10 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1948.11.288

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 30.; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de Polidoro de Caravaggio.; in plate, below image, at left: E. Museo Prauniano; in plate, below image, at right: J. T. Prestel sc. Norimb. 1782. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Wikidata ID

Q65079611


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