The Triumph of Truth over Envy

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Maria Katharina Prestel

Title

The Triumph of Truth over Envy

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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1781

Medium

Etching and aquatint, from three plates, in brown and black, with metallic gold, on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed lower center (on a cartouche attached to the mount), in pen and ink: “Dessin de Jacques Ligozzi / gravé d'après l'Orginal de la / même grandeur qui est dans le Cabinet de Mons: de Präun à Nuremb: / T. Prestel sc:”; lettered, on an additional attached strip of paper: “chés Wilh. Fleischer a. Francfort sur le m”; verso, upper right, in graphite: “1114”; lower right: “929”; and lower center: “2180” and “602”

Dimensions

Sheet: 30.1 × 22.9 cm (11 7/8 × 9 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund

Reference Number

2024.155

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