The Contemplative Life (Vita contemplativa), c. 1883

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Medium

etching on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 36 × 28 cm (14 3/16 × 11 in.)

sheet: 47.7 × 40 cm (18 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Ann and Matthew Nimetz

Catalogue Raisonné

Bianchi-Ginex 1994, no. 26

Accession Number

2013.115.4

Artists / Makers

Luigi Conconi (artist) Italian, 1852 - 1917

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in graphite: vita contemplativa; lower right in graphite:ad carissimo Vicezino Marinaro[?] / e affet. [not deciphered] Bigio / Milano 10. Ag. 907

Provenance

(Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Il Bulino Antiche Stampe di Matteo Crespi

Exhibition History

2014: From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800- 1925, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015.

Bibliography

1994: Bianchi, Matteo, and Giovanna Ginex, eds.Luigi Conconi: incisore. Milan, 1994, no. 26