Nude Man Blowing a Conch, 1735

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving printed in sanguine on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 29.7 x 21.3 cm (11 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

sheet: 31.6 x 23 cm (12 7/16 x 9 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Accession Number

2006.162.6

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Antonio Faldoni (artist) Italian, c. 1690 - c. 1770

Parmigianino (artist after) Parmese, 1503 - 1540

Image Use

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Inscription

Lower center in plate: Venerabili Potentissimo Principi Joseph Vincislao de Lichtenstein / Generali et Colonello & c. S.M.C.C. Lepidissimi Pictoris Francisci / Mazzuolae Parmensis Schedon hanc Humiliter donat, et dicat CDDCCXXXV.; lower left in plate: Ioan. Anton Faldoni Sculpsit.; lower right in plate: Antonius Maria Zanetti.

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 19, 1978; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.