Dying Epaminondas

1782

Johann Gottlieb Prestel

Artist, German, 1739 - 1808

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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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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

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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