Christ Consigning the Keys to Saint Peter

c.1766

Andrea Scacciati, after Jacopo da Empoli

Associated Names
Andrea Scacciati

Artist, Italian, 1725 - 1771

Jacopo da Empoli

Artist After, Florentine, c. 1554 - 1610

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, sulfur tint, and roulette printed in green on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 61.5 × 44.5 cm (24 3/16 × 17 1/2 in.)
    plate: 50 × 38.5 cm (19 11/16 × 15 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.17.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Le Blanc 1854 - 1888, no. 8 (series)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Bloomsbury, London, 15 November 2012, lot 762); (Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

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: no. 8 (series)

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Iacopo da'Empoli inven: e del:; lower right in plate: Scacciati inc:; by later hand, lower left, in graphite: 19; by later hand, upper right, in graphite: 4 [circled]

Watermarks

DELLA GALLERIA DI SMI; DISEGNO; AF / C; encircled horn

Wikidata ID

Q76561575

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