Latona Giving Birth to Apollo and Diana on the Island of Delos

1561-1565

Diana Scultori

Artist, Italian, c.1547 - 1612

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper (with offset of Diana Scultori's "Snake Charmer" [B.44] on verso)

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.8 × 38 cm (10 3/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 30.3 × 42.2 cm (11 15/16 × 16 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.4619

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 39

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Emanuel Levy, New York (Lugt 876); Edward Duff Balken [1874-1960], Pittsburgh (Lugt 843); gift to Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], March 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1963

  • Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, 1963-1964.

1985

  • Landscape Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, no cat.

2007

  • Italian Women Artists: from Renaissance to Baroque, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, no. 17, repro.

2021

  • By Her Hand: Artemesia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; The Detroit Institute of Arts, 2021-2022.

  • By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 2021 - 2022, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: vol.15, p.449, no.39.

1991

  • Bellini, Paolo. L'opera incisa di Adamo e Diana Scultori, Milan, 1991: no. 9 ii/vi.

Inscriptions

lower left, in plate: DIANA; lower left, below image in brown ink: [PMC.?]; lower right, below image in brown ink: premiere Epreuve avant l'adresse d'Horatio Pacifico, et cette de DeRossi.

Markings

verso, at lower right, stamped in red ink: Edward Duff Balken (Lugt 843); at lower right, stamped in blue ink: Emanuel Levy (Lugt 876)

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q64955618

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