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Soldier seated on a tomb and other figures

Maker

(etcher)
1696-1770

(publisher)
1680-1767

(Artists)
1696-1770

(publisher)
1680-1767

Title

Soldier seated on a tomb and other figures

Date of Production

1743

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Height: 13.7 cm
Width: 17.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1978.PG.14

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



Label Text

Although the associations evoked by most prints in the series from which this work comes are notoriously difficult to pin down, there is a poignant contrast here between the youthful strength of the young soldier in the centre of this image and the reminder of mortality presented by the tombstone on which he sits.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Piranesi, Tiepolo, Canaletto - Etchings from the Courtauld
Collection
, London & England, 11/02/1999-03/05/1999

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right image on stone slab & recto : : Tiepolo //

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