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Plate 24, Catalogue of paintings in the Imperial Picture Gallery, including those of Michelangelo, Titian, Guido Reni, and Correggio.

Maker

(engraver)
1628-1671

After
(artist)
1475-1564

(engraver)
1675-1750 (Life dates)

(publisher)

Title

Plate 24, Catalogue of paintings in the Imperial Picture Gallery, including those of Michelangelo, Titian, Guido Reni, and Correggio.

Date of Production

1735

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Height: 33.8 cm
Width: 25 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2954.32

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Label Text

The Prodromus(published in 1735) is an early engraved catalogue of highlights from Vienna’s imperial Habsburg collection formed by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1614-62). While the arrangement of paintings in this print is fictive, it was common practice to display artworks symmetrically on densely hung picture walls. At the bottom left a copy after Michelangelo’s famous Dream is shown, a master drawing in The Courtauld Gallery.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Special Display - The Grid, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/01/2012-28/05/2012

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto, lower margin: German text, 3 columns of 4 lines each: "Ben sich suenst will hie i8n nollen schuzen zeigen, / ... / ... / da jener menschen, der nur thir betriegen tan. //". Recto, lower left: "Confusas rerum species miraris at umbras, ... In tenebris calami mens latet. Arsque patet.//." Recto, lower right: "Cernis, ut egregius tenerum Iovis alite Pictor. / ... / Sub pede Livoris subjuga colla premit. //".

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