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Giorgio Ghisi after Giovanni Battista Scultori

The Fall of Troy and the Escape of Aeneas, c. 1545

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (cut within platemark): 37.9 x 49.2 cm (14 15/16 x 19 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Boorsch/Lewis 1985, no. 8, State i/v

Accession Number

2005.75.1

Artists / Makers

Giorgio Ghisi (artist) Italian, 1520 - 1582

Giovanni Battista Scultori (artist after) Italian, 1503 - 1575

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Inscription

lower right in plate: GIORGIVS MANTVANVS / .F.; lower center in plate: I.B. MNTVANVS IN.

Provenance

Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne and Whitchurch-on-Thames; (R. M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara); purchased by NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Light & Co., R. M.
Private Collection c/o Josefowitz

Exhibition History

2019: Venetian Prints in the Time of Tintoretto, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1985: Boorsch, Suzanne and Michal and R.E. Lewis. The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985.

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