Doctor Sbaraglia, 1716

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series Title

Entelechia seu Anima sensitiva brutorum demonstrata

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 18.9 × 14.2 cm (7 7/16 × 5 9/16 in.)

sheet: 23.8 × 19 cm (9 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of James A. Bergquist, Boston, in honor of Shelley R.Langdale

Catalogue Raisonné

De Vesme 1906, no. 3, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2020.149.14

Artists / Makers

Donato Creti (artist) Bolognese, 1671 - 1749

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Inscription

lower center in cartouche: Haec est Sbaralae Medici Doctoris imago / Ingenio celebris, consilio, arte, libris. / Rapta Anima est Brutis, tribuit quam Numen amicum. / Reddit hic, hic ergo Numinis instar erit.; lower center below image: Donatus Creti Bononiensis delineavit et sculpsit 1716; by later hand, verso in pen and ink: Ch [not deciphered]; by later hand, lower center verso in blue pencil: 21 C

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); gift to NGA, 2020.

Associated Names

Bergquist, James A., Mr.

Bibliography

1906: Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906: no. 3, ii/ii