Spectacle in Honor of the Grand Dukes of Russia in the Theater of San Benedetto, 1782, 1782

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Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 50 × 62.5 cm (19 11/16 × 24 5/8 in.)

sheet: 51.7 × 66.4 cm (20 3/8 × 26 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Meyer 1872 - 1885, no. 23

Accession Number

2018.164.1

Artists / Makers

Antonio Baratta (artist) Italian, 1724 - 1787

Giambattista Canal (artist after) Italian, 1745 - 1825

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Ioan. Bapt. Cana delin. quoad figuras; lower right in plate: Antonius Baratti sculp. Venetus; lower cetner in plate: Immago Spectaculi quod, in Nobiliore Theator de vico S. Benedicti, Magnis Russie Ducibus Nicolaus Michaelius, / et Philippus Calbo, Sapientes AErario Prefecti, ex S. C. exhibuerunt XI. Kal. Feb MDCCLXXXII. / Antonio Mauro Pitcore, et ARchit. Prosp. ejusdem Theatri inventore, atque Directore.; lower right in plate: Dessein du Spectacle, que leurs Excellences Messeurs Nicolas Michieli, et Philipe Calbo Sages préposés au Trésor, ont donné par / Decret du SEnat au Grand Dc, et a la Grande Duchesse de Russie, dans le trés Noble Theatre a S. Benoint le 22 Janvier 1782. / Grave avec Privilege du Senat / Sous la Direction de Antoine Mauro Peintre, et Archit. Persp. du meme Theatre qui en étoit l'inventeur

Provenance

(Cortona Fine Arts, Milan); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Cortona, Enrico

Bibliography

1872: Meyer, Julius et al. Allegmeines Kunstler-Lexikon, unter Mitwirkung der namhaftesten Fachgelehrten des In- und Auslandes. 3 vols. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1872-1885: no. 23