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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2020.44
People
Giovanni David, Italian (Cabella Ligure 1743 - 1790 Genoa)
Title
The Venetian Lady in Masquerade Dress
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Divers Portraits
Original Language Title: La Dame Venitienne en habit de masque
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1775
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/218122

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and aquatint on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
image: 22 × 15.9 cm (8 11/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
plate: 23.9 × 16.6 cm (9 7/16 × 6 9/16 in.)
sheet: 39.5 × 27.5 cm (15 9/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: right edge, partial: [three crescent moons?]
  • inscription: lower left, in plate: David Gen Inv. fecit.
  • inscription: lower center, in plate: La Dame Venitienne en abit de masque. / Tour les Livres sont pleins des titres de ses Peres. Bod. Sat. V.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein (cf. Lugt 2715a), sold; to [C. G. Boerner, New York and Dusseldorf], sold; to Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, 1997; Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/iii
Standard Reference Number
LeBlanc 18; Newcombe Schleier and Grasso 13a

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mariot F. Solomon
Accession Year
2020
Object Number
2020.44
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/09/2023 - 07/10/2023

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