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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

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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.

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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