The Rape of the Sabine Women and The Triumph of Two Emperors

c. 1600

Cherubino Alberti

Artist, Roman, 1553 - 1615

Polidoro da Caravaggio

Artist After, Lombard, c. 1499 - 1543

Cherubino Alberti after Polidoro da Caravaggio

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    five engravings printed on separate pieces of yellow silk satin backed with heavy paper

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 21.6 × 223.5 cm (8 1/2 × 88 in.)
    framed: 246.4 × 44.5 × 2.54 cm (97 × 17 1/2 × 1 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2004.114.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 159, State -160

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1985); Samuel Josefowitz, New York; (R. M. Light & Co., Inc. Santa Barbara, and Nicholas Stogdon); purchased by NGA, 2004.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

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

  • Bromberg, Ruth. Master Prints--Fifteenth to Nineteenth Century. London, 1985: no. 1.

Wikidata ID

Q76337403

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