Pietà, 1720s

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 19.4 x 12.7 cm (7 5/8 x 5 in.)

sheet: 19.9 x 12.9 cm (7 13/16 x 5 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Nagler, no. 13

Accession Number

1999.98.13

Artists / Makers

Paul Troger (artist) Austrian, 1698 - 1762

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Paulus Troger in: fecit.; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Paul Troger; by later hand, lower center verso in ink: Nagler, No. 13; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: I Züstand, vor Winklers Adres: / Wien

Provenance

Alfred Misch, Berlin (Lugt 1816f). Wilhelm Soldan, Berlin, after 1950 (Lugt undescribed). (sale, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 4-5 June 1999, no. 6028); (C. G. Boerner Inc., New York, 1999); purchased 1999 by NGA with funds contributed by The Ahmanson Foundation.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
David Carritt Limited, Artemis Group

Bibliography

1835: Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, no. 13.