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1782-1785

Maria Catharina Prestel

Artist, German, 1747 - 1794

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    mount: 48.5 × 33.4 cm (19 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)
    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 16 × 23 cm (6 5/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1948.11.291

Associated Artworks

See all 36 artworks

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.

Bibliography

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 135, fig. 4.

Inscriptions

in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de Guillaume van de Velde. / Du Cabinet de Monsieur Jean Frederic Ettling à Francfort sur le Mein; in plate, below image, at left: H.S.H. excud.; in plate, below image, at right: No. 33 / M. Cath. Prestel Sc. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Wikidata ID

Q65080380


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