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Carl Russ

Diogenes in His Tub with Alexander and His Generals, 1810

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Medium

etching and aquatint on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 20.9 × 30.1 cm (8 1/4 × 11 7/8 in.)
plate: 21.4 × 30.8 cm (8 7/16 × 12 1/8 in.)

sheet: 27.8 × 38.8 cm (10 15/16 × 15 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Nagler 1835 - 1852, no. 4

Accession Number

2020.108.1

Artists / Makers

Carl Russ (artist) Austrian, 1779 - 1843

Image Use

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Provenance

(C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

1835: Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, no. 4.

2021: Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 149, fig. 3.

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