A Gentleman Pilgrim with a Rosary, 1740s

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Medium

engraving with etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 43.3 x 34.5 cm (17 1/16 x 13 9/16 in.)

sheet: 47.8 x 36.1 cm (18 13/16 x 14 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Le Blanc, no. 93

Accession Number

2012.82.1

Artists / Makers

Marco Alvise Pitteri (artist) Italian, 1702 - 1786

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (artist after) Italian, 1683 - 1754

Image Use

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Inscription

across lower edge of plate: Io. Baptistae Albrizzi Hier. F. cuius ab humanitate Prototypon, expressam dicat imaginem; lower right in plate: Marco Pitteri Incisor; lower left in plate: Gio Batta Piazzeta pinxit

Provenance

Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein, Harburg, and Maihingen (L. 2715a, not stamped). (C. G. Boerner, New York, 1997 - 2012); purchased 2012.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.

Bibliography

1854: Le Blanc, Charles. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels..., vol. 3, no. 93 [as portrait of Albrizzi].

1922: Ravà, Aldo. Marco Pitteri incisore Veneziano. Florence, 1922: no. 263

1944: Mauroner, Fabio. Incisioni del Pitteri. Bergamo, [1944], pl. 13.

1997: C.G. Boerner Neue Lagerliste 109, 1997: no. 71

2012: C. G. Boerner. Neue Lagerliste 129. New York, 2012: no. 26