Lucretia

c. 1775-1776

Giovanni David

Artist, Italian, 1743 - 1790

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 9.4 × 13.5 cm (3 11/16 × 5 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 12.1 × 17.8 cm (4 3/4 × 7 in.)

  • Accession

    2020.107.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Newcome Schleier-Grasso 2003, no. 146, State undesc. ii/ii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Galerie Bassenge, Munich, 3 June 2020, no. 5256); (via C.G. Boerner LLC, New York); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2003

  • Grasso, Giovanni, and Mary Newcome Schleier. Giovanni David, Pittore e incisore della famiglia Durazzo. Turin, 2003: no. 146, undesc. ii/ii

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 124, fig. 11.

Inscriptions

in plate, below image, at left: David Gen.Inv. f.; in plate, below image, at center: Lucrezia; by later hand, lower left of mount in brown ink: gravé par Giovanni David / voir Ch. Le Blanc tome 2 page 99


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