Old Man Pointing to the Left, 1780

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series Title

Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets) [plate 8]

Medium

aquatint and etching in gray and black

Dimensions

mount: 48.8 × 33.7 cm (19 3/16 × 13 1/4 in.)

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 16.2 × 12.6 cm (6 3/8 × 4 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1948.11.266

Artists / Makers

Maria Catharina Prestel (artist) German, 1747 - 1794

Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (artist after) Dutch, 1589 - 1662

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, below image, at right: No 8.; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin d'Adrien van der Venne / tiré de la Collection de Mr. Mathès, Peintre à Hambourg.; in plate, below image, at right: M. Cath. Prestel sc. 1780. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Provenance

(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius