Attila at the Gates of Rome, 1649

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Medium

etching on laid paper [proof]

Dimensions

plate: 39.2 × 26 cm (15 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

sheet: 40.7 × 27.2 cm (16 × 10 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Bert Freidus

Catalogue Raisonné

Préaud 1975, no. H [proof]

Accession Number

2016.151.3

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Bracelli (artist) Italian, active c. 1624 - 1649

Alessandro Algardi (artist after) Bolognese-Roman, 1598 - 1654

Image Use

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Inscription

Upper left in plate: Equiti Alexandri / Langardi / Bononiensis / Sculptoris / Celeberrimi / Perspicuu / S; upper right in plate: Celature opus in Vaticana / Basilica omnium / admiratione / erectum / anno Dom / MDC. / XXXX / VIIII; lower left in image: Superioru Licenza; lower right in plate: Io Batista / Braccellus / Flo Pi incidebat; across lower edge in plate: Venerat armato metuendus milite Romam / Attilas, iuratus moerica diruerc / Sed Roma gemino quasi fulmine Celu / Increpat, et sacro prosilitore Leo. / Isolito terrore labaris stetit Attila / Tantu sistere debuerant fulmina Tanta Duce

Provenance

(Antiquarius srl, Rome); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Antiquarius srl

Bibliography

1975: Préaud, Maxime, and Tristan Tzara. Bracelli Gravures. Paris, 1975: no. H