Querulas praetentat pollice cordas (The Lute Player), 1802

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Medium

mezzotint on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 59.2 x 43.2 cm (23 5/16 x 17 in.)

sheet: 63.3 x 69 cm (24 15/16 x 27 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2003.78.1

Artists / Makers

Johann Bernard (artist) Austrian, 1784 - after 1821

Orazio Gentileschi (artist after) Florentine, 1563 - 1639

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Peint par M.A. de Caravage. / Le tableau original se trouve dans la Galerie de S.A. le Prince regnant de Liechtenstein; lower center in plate: Imprimé par Senn. / Querulas pratenat pollice chordas - Ovid; lower right in plate: Gravé par Bernard / A Vienne, au Bureau d'Arts et d'Industrie
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Provenance

(Libreria Antiquaria Soave, Turin); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Libreria Antiquaria Soave

Bibliography

2003: Libreria Antiquaria Soave. Catalogo n. 52. Turin, 2003: no. 109.