The Drunken Silenus, 1628, printed c. 1933-1934

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving printed in brown on heavy wove paper [restrike printed by the Regia Calcografia, Rome]

Dimensions

plate: 27.6 x 35.6 cm (10 7/8 x 14 in.)

sheet: 46.2 x 62.1 cm (18 3/16 x 24 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Transferred from The Library of Congress

Catalogue Raisonné

Brown 1973, no. 14, State (restrike)

Accession Number

1986.50.7

Artists / Makers

Jusepe de Ribera (artist) Spanish, 1591 - 1652

Calcografia di Roma (printer)

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, at lower left: alla Pace Gio.IacomoRossi formis Roma / 1649; in plate, at lower center: Al Molto Illre. Sr.Don Gioseppe Balsamo Barone di Cattasi Giorato dell Illmo. / Senata de lla nobile Citta di Messina / Giovanni Orlandi Romano. D.D.; in plate, at lower right: Joseph a Ribera Hisp. Valenti / Setaben f. Partenope / 1628

Marks and Labels

recto: at lower right, blindstamp of Calcografia di Roma (Lugt 2144); verso: stamped in purple Division of Prints, Library of Congress [44118 stamped in blue in rectangle] (Lugt 1680)

Provenance

Calcografia di Roma; Library of Congress, Washington DC; transferred to National Gallery of Art in 1986

Associated Names

United States Government

Bibliography

1934: Regia Calcografia 1934, 741.

1973: Brown, Jonathan. Jusepe de Ribera: Prints and Drawings. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.