The Triumph of Truth Over Envy

1781

Maria Catharina Prestel

Artist, German, 1747 - 1794

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint printed in brown with gold leaf

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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

  • 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


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