Compendio delle Vite de' Pittori Veneziani istorici piùrinomati del presente secolo con suoi ritratti tratti dal naturale delineati ed incise da Alessandro Longhi Veneziano

1762

Alessandro Longhi

Associated Names
Alessandro Longhi

Artist, Venetian, 1733 - 1813

Italian 18th Century

Author

The image shows a waist-up portrait of a man in an oval frame. He faces forward and slightly to his left, with distinct facial features. His curly hair is partially covered by a headscarf or turban-like cloth. He wears a loose, draped garment with no visible fastenings. The oval frame includes the text "Alexander Longhi Pictor." The background features ornate scrollwork, figures, and decorative elements. A circular medallion above the portrait shows a face with flowing hair. The bottom corners display artistic motifs like a painter's palette and brushes. The scene is rendered in a detailed, engraved style.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 24 etched portraits with etched decorative borders printed from separate plates; 24 engraved text pages with etched cartouches inset under text and with etched decorative borders, the three parts printed from separate plates; engravedtitle page; one dedication page with large etched coat-of-arms with engraved name and title of dedicatee below; another dedication page with engraved text and etched decorative border printed from separate plates; colophon with engraved text andborder, printed separately.

  • Credit Line

    B.H. Breslauer Foundation Fund

  • Dimensions

    book: 51.8 x 37.8 x 3.2 cm (20 3/8 x 14 7/8 x 1 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2006.94.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Pierre Berge); (Bernard Quarich); Purchased 2006 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 81 b.

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