Pietà

1582

Agostino Carracci

Artist, Bolognese, 1557 - 1602

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 39.8 x 28.5 cm (15 11/16 x 11 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1994.18.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bohlin 1979, no. 102, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified collector (paraph in brown ink on verso, Lugt undescribed); Hill-Stone, New York; purchased 1994 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • Venetian Prints in the Time of Tintoretto, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019.

Bibliography

1802

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

1979

  • Bohlin, Diane DeGrazia. Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1979.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Agu. Car. fe.; lower left toward center: Paolo Calliarj Veronese inve. / Oratio Bertelli for. 1582

Wikidata ID

Q75124835

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