Allegorical Figure Holding a Sphere

mid 1560s

Giorgio Ghisi

Artist, Italian, 1520 - 1582

Giulio Romano

Artist After, Roman, 1499 - 1546

Giorgio Ghisi possibly after Giulio Romano

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 23.5 x 12.8 cm (9 1/4 x 5 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1964.8.1033

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Boorsch/Lewis 1985, no. 38, State only

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, cat. no. 136, as Victory.

Bibliography

1802

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

1985

  • Boorsch, Suzanne and Michal and R.E. Lewis. The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985.

1990

  • Russell 1990, cat. no. 136.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: GMF (in monogram); center verso, in graphite: G. Ghisi B XX 399 34 Victory L a/c N 38

Wikidata ID

Q65508603

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