The Drunken Silenus
1628, printed c. 1933-1934
Artist, Spanish, 1591 - 1652
Printer

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and engraving printed in brown on heavy wove paper [restrike printed by the Regia Calcografia, Rome]
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 27.6 x 35.6 cm (10 7/8 x 14 in.)
sheet: 46.2 x 62.1 cm (18 3/16 x 24 7/16 in.) -
Accession
1986.50.7
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Catalogue Raisonné
Brown 1973, no. 14, State (restrike)
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Calcografia di Roma; Library of Congress, Washington DC; transferred to National Gallery of Art in 1986
Associated Names
Bibliography
1934
Regia Calcografia 1934, 741.
1973
Brown, Jonathan. Jusepe de Ribera: Prints and Drawings. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.
Inscriptions
recto: in plate, at lower left: alla Pace Gio.IacomoRossi formis Roma / 1649; in plate, at lower center: Al Molto Illre. Sr.Don Gioseppe Balsamo Barone di Cattasi Giorato dell Illmo. / Senata de lla nobile Citta di Messina / Giovanni Orlandi Romano. D.D.; in plate, at lower right: Joseph a Ribera Hisp. Valenti / Setaben f. Partenope / 1628
Markings
recto: at lower right, blindstamp of Calcografia di Roma (Lugt 2144); verso: stamped in purple Division of Prints, Library of Congress [44118 stamped in blue in rectangle] (Lugt 1680)
Wikidata ID
Q74073900