Harlequin as Crippled Soldier, 1760

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series Title

Four Harlequin Subjects

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 40.6 × 31 cm (16 × 12 3/16 in.)

sheet: 40.9 × 31 cm (16 1/8 × 12 3/16 in.), cut within platemark

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Calabi and De Vesme 1928, no. 1340, State iii/iii

Accession Number

2018.154.3

Artists / Makers

Francesco Bartolozzi (artist) Florentine, 1727 - 1815

Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (artist after) Italian, 1692 - 1768

Joseph Wagner (publisher) German, 1706 - 1780

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Gio. Dom.co Ferretti inven.; lower right in plate: F. Bartolozzi Scul. Appo I. Wagner Ven.a C.P.E.S.; lower center in plate: Andò per bastonar fu: bastonato: / E all'altrui carità si raccomanda. / Se non vi move un povero storpiato, / Vi mova chi per lui pietà domanda.; by later hand, lower left in brown ink: No. 26-3; by later hand, on verso in graphite: No. 2; 59/2; 3L

Marks and Labels

crest with crown and W(?) below

Provenance

(Susan Schulman Fine Art Inc., New York); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Schulman, Susan