Sofonisba (or Artemisia)
1744
Artist, Venetian, 1709 - 1769
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Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
Gift of Karin Wachtel in memory of her husband, Cesare Morini
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Dimensions
plate: 28.1 × 39.4 cm (11 1/16 × 15 1/2 in.)
sheet: 36.8 × 50.7 cm (14 1/2 × 19 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2014.117.7
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Catalogue Raisonné
De Vesme 1906, no. 10
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Cesare Morini, Milan; his widow, Karin Wachtel, Milan; gift to NGA, 2015
Associated Names
Bibliography
1906
Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906: no. 10.
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower center of plate in brown ink: Sofonisbe che svend il Veleno
Wikidata ID
Q77007880