Frontispice from Nella Venuta

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Franz Edmund Weirotter

Title

Frontispice from Nella Venuta

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1764

Medium

Etching in black on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed center of image, in plate: "À Madame Le Comte Romae 1764."; lower left, in image, in plate: "L'art / De Peindre...F.W. No..."; lower left: "E. D La Poussin"; lower right: "F. Weirotter S. Rome"; stamped verso, upper left corner, in black ink: "609"; inscribed, verso, lower right, in graphite: "6"

Dimensions

Image: 12.5 × 8.2 cm (4 15/16 × 3 1/4 in.); Plate: 13.6 × 9.1 cm (5 3/8 × 3 5/8 in.); Sheet: 16.1 × 10.7 cm (6 3/8 × 4 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund

Reference Number

2011.76

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