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Portrait of Pietro Aretino

Maker

(artist)
1488-1576

(etcher)
1607-1677

(publisher)
1614-1619

Title

Portrait of Pietro Aretino

Date of Production

1649

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 25 cm
Width: 18.9 cm

Accession Number

G.1970.XX.23

Mode of Acquisition

Johannes Wilde, bequest, 1970

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Pietro Aretino

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Literature

Hollstein, F.W.H., The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400–1700, Rotterdam, Sound & Vision Publishers 1996-
no. 1043

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin centre & recto : : VERA EFFIGIE DEL POETA PETRO ARETINO / CAVATO DA TITIANO SVO AMICHISSIMO / Titianus pinxit W Hollar fecit 1649 Ex Collectione Iohannis et Iacobi Van Verle, Franciscus van den Wyngarde excudit. //

Inscription: inscription : : on verso : Collector's mark of G.A. Cardew (Lugt 1134) :

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