Lucretia, c. 1775-1776

Not on View

Medium

etching and aquatint on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

2020.107.3

Artists / Makers

Giovanni David (artist) Italian, 1743 - 1790

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.

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.