The Triumph of Truth Over Envy
1781
Artist, German, 1747 - 1794
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and aquatint printed in brown with gold leaf
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
mount: 48.7 × 33.5 cm (19 3/16 × 13 3/16 in.)
sheet (trimmed within platemark): 30.4 × 22.8 cm (11 15/16 × 9 in.) -
Accession
1948.11.282
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schwaighofer 36
Associated Artworks
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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)
Maria Catharina Prestel, Regina Schönecker, Johann Georg Sturm, Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen, Johann Gottlieb Prestel
1782
Three Lansquenets
Maria Catharina Prestel
1780
Saint Barbara
Johann Gottlieb Prestel
1782
More About this Artwork
Video: Two-Minute Tour: Aquatint
Join exhibition curator Rena Hoisington on a two-minute tour of Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, which was on view at the National Gallery of Art from October 24, 2021, to February 21, 2022.
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2021
Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.
Bibliography
2021
Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 135, fig. 6.
Inscriptions
in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de Jacques Ligozzi; in plate, below image, at left: E. Museo Prauniano; below image, at right: No. 24 / M. Cath Prestel Sc. Norimb. 1781 [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]
Wikidata ID
Q65080372