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Antonio Fontanesi

Associated Names
Antonio Fontanesi

Artist, Italian, 1818 - 1882

The image shows a scene with two small figures playing in shallow water. Tall grasses and trees frame the background, with the moon in the sky above. The artwork is an intricate etching with fine lines detailing textures in a monochrome palette of black and white. Tall grass surrounds the figures in the foreground, and a large tree with a thick trunk is in the background with moonlight shining through its branches.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on chine collé, proof before letters

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 36.4 × 28 cm (14 5/16 × 11 in.)
    plate: 25.6 × 18.8 cm (10 1/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.30.18

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dragone 1980, no. 78, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

[Il Bulino Antiche Stampe, Milan]; purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800- 1925, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015.

Bibliography

1980

  • Dragone, Angelo.Antonio Fontanesi : l'opera grafica. Bologna, 1980, no. 78.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: AFontanesi; by artist, lower center under image, in graphite [partially erased]: al nobile collega Signore ____; by artist, lower left under platemark, in graphite: prova non finita; by later hand, verso lower right, in graphite: D78

Wikidata ID

Q76561660

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