About this artwork
The Roman painter and engraver Ottavio Leoni transformed his famous group of highly finished chalk portraits into hundreds of prints. These amount to a compendium of important artists in early-17th-century Rome. Like Giovanni Baglione (1920.2303), Leoni’s portrait of Marcellus Provenzalis is a keen characterization of an artist. This engraving is among Leoni’s early prints and betrays his immature, slightly awkward cross-hatching.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Ottavio Leoni
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Title
- Marcellus Provenzalis
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Place
- Italy (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1623
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Medium
- Engraving on ivory laid paper
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Dimensions
- Plate: 14.4 × 11.2 cm (5 11/16 × 4 7/16 in.); Sheet: 16.8 × 13.7 cm (6 5/8 × 5 7/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
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Reference Number
- 1920.2305
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/109034/manifest.json
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