Le Paveur (The Road Paver), 1775

Not on View

Divers Portraits (Various Portraits)

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 24 × 16.6 cm (9 7/16 × 6 9/16 in.)

sheet: 38.3 × 28.6 cm (15 1/16 × 11 1/4 in.)

Newcome Schleier-Grasso 2003, no. 18a, State ii/ii

2013.173.8

Giovanni David (artist) Italian, 1743 - 1790

lower left in plate: David Gen: Inv: fecit.; lower center in plate: le Paveur. / Des Paveurs en ce lieu me bouchent le passage. Boil. Sat. 6.

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(Enrico Cortona, Milan); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Cortona, Enrico

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

2003: Grasso, Giovanni, and Mary Newcome Schleier. Giovanni David, Pittore e incisore della famiglia Durazzo. Turin, 2003: no. 18a (ii/ii).

2021: Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 117, fig. 6.