Saints Peter and Paul, 1785

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Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 45.9 × 30.2 cm (18 1/16 × 11 7/8 in.)

sheet: 46.6 × 30.2 cm (18 3/8 × 11 7/8 in.) trimmed within platemark
mount: 47.5 × 32 cm (18 11/16 × 12 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

De Vesme, 1906: no. 8, State undesc. iv/iv

Accession Number

2020.46.1

Artists / Makers

Gaetano Gandolfi (artist) Bolognese, 1734 - 1802

Guido Reni (artist after) Bolognese, 1575 - 1642

Ludovico Inig (printer) Italian, active late 18th century

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: SS. PETRVS, ET PAULVS / Ex insigni Tabula Guidonis Reni, / que asservatur in Pinacotheca Sampieri / Bonomie; lower left in plate: Impressum per Ludovicum Inig; lower right in plate: C. Gandolfi del. et incid 1785; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: D.V. No.8 / Stato iii/3; FORSE [not deciphered] BIANCHI / [not deciphered] / LUDOVICO SINI(?)

Provenance

(Enrico Cortona, Milan); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

Cortona, Enrico

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. 8, undesc. iv/iv