Temporalis Aeternitas, 1645

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Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 30 × 20.2 cm (11 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.), trimmed to or within platemark

Credit Line

Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, no. 27

Accession Number

2018.113.26

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (artist) Italian, 1609 - 1664

Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi (publisher) Italian, active 17th century

Image Use

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Inscription

on tomb in image: TEMPORALIS AETERNITAS / 1645; in image, lower center: Nec Sepulcra legens uereor / ne per dam memoriam; lower left below image in plate: Io BeneD CASTILIONUS pinxit; lower right in plate below image: Si stampano in Roma per Gio: Dom.co Rossi all Pace all'Insegna di Parigit Con licenza a de Superiori; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: HB 43S. 28 / XXI 25 p. 23 D

Provenance

Unidentified private collector (similar to Lugt 2417). Albertina, Vienna (duplicate, Lugt 5g). Robert and Bertina Suida Manning, Forest Hills, NY; by descent Alessandra Manning and Kurt Dolnier, Watertown, CT, 1996; Gift to NGA, 2018

Associated Names

Albertina
Dolnier, Sandy
Manning, Robert L., Mr. and Mrs.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: no. 27

1971: Percy, Ann. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draughtsman of the Italian Baroque. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971: no. E13.

1982: Bellini, Paolo. L'opera incisa di Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Milan, 1982, no. 14, iv/iv