Portrait of Count Giacomo Durazzo

c. 1784

Giovanni David

Artist, Italian, 1743 - 1790

Giovanni Vitalba

Artist, Italian, 1738 - c. 1792

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2017.193.1.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Newcome Schleier-Grasso 2003, no. 161

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Markings

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