Portrait of Count Giacomo Durazzo, c. 1784

Not on View

Medium

etching, aquatint, and engraving on laid paper tipped into book as frontispiece

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within platemark at right where sheet is tipped into book): 29.4 × 21.2 cm (11 9/16 × 8 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Newcome Schleier-Grasso 2003, no. 161

Accession Number

2017.193.1.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni David (artist) Italian, 1743 - 1790

Giovanni Vitalba (artist) Italian, 1738 - c. 1792

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Inscription

in plate, in image, below portrait: J. COMTE DE DURAZZO / Noble Genois / Ambassadeur Imperial a Venise.; in frontispiece, in plate, at bottom left: David Gen. in. et ornavit; in frontispiece, in plate, below image, at bottom right: Vitalba vultum perfecit

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

La vecchia Parma antiquariato, No. 1534 (bookplate). Miari Pelli Fabbroni (bookplate). (Enrico Cortona, Milan); purchased 2017 by NGA.

Associated Names

Cortona, Enrico

Bibliography

2003: Grasso, Giovanni, and Mary Newcome Schleier. Giovanni David, Pittore e incisore della famiglia Durazzo. Turin, 2003: no. 161.

2021: Hoisington, Rena.Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 125, fig. 12.