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Portrait of Caravaggio (Portrait de Michel Ange de Caravagge)

Maker

After
(artist)
1571-1610

(printmaker)
1700-1799

Title

Portrait of Caravaggio (Portrait de Michel Ange de Caravagge)

Date of Production

1786 - 1808

Medium

etching and engraving
printed in black

Dimensions

Height: 41.5 cm
Width: 28.7 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.6987.30

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

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //

Inscription: PORTRAIT DE MICHEL ANGE AMERIGHI DE CARAVAGGE / PEINT PAR LUI MÊME. / De la Galerie du Palais d'Orléans. / ÉCOLE DE LOMBARDIE. / I.ER TABLEAU DE CE MAITRE. (...) //

Inscription: M. CARAVAGGIO / Portrait of the Painter / See similar compositions under Velasquez and Schonfeldt / See similar picture under J. Ribera. / Gall. Palais Royal, 1786. //

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