The Birth of the Virgin

Anton Maria Zanetti I

Artist, Italian, 1680 - 1757

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chiaroscuro woodcut, three woodblocks in light blue, pink, and red on laid paper with gilt edges mounted on laid paper with wash borders

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/block: 17.4 × 11.7 cm (6 7/8 × 4 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1952.8.486.24

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 24

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Associated Artworks

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A Genie Aloft

Anton Maria Zanetti I

1722

Madonna and Child, Saint Stephen, Another Saint, and a Young Man or Woman

Anton Maria Zanetti I

1722

Saint Sebastian

Anton Maria Zanetti I

1723

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ambroise Firmin Didot (1790-1876) [bookplate]. (Pierre Berès Inc., New York); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1952; gift to NGA, 1952.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

Inscriptions

Inscription in lower left "P. Inv. AMZ del., et Sculp."; on mount, at lower center, in black ink, in later hand: 25; on mount, at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: B.24; verso: none

Markings

"National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).

Watermarks

None.

Wikidata ID

Q65222374

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