Torello Saraina, 1540

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series Title

De Origine et Amplitudine Civitatis Veronae (frontispiece)

Medium

woodcut [proof] on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 19.3 × 14.9 cm (7 5/8 × 5 7/8 in.)

sheet: 21.1 × 16.9 cm (8 5/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
mount: 26.3 × 18.9 cm (10 3/8 × 7 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

2020.43.21

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Francesco Caroto (artist) Veronese, c. 1480 - 1555/1558

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower center of mount in pen and brown ink: Ritratto di Torello Saraina la cui [not deciphered]... / il nome che non e quello dell'incisione [not deciphered] / questo ritratto e premsso alla storia di Verona.

Provenance

(sale, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 28 November 2018, no. 5511); Private collection, Vicenza; (Enrico Cortona, Milan); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

Cortona, Enrico
Galerie Gerda Bassenge