The Triumph of Truth Over Envy, 1781

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series Title

Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets) [plate 24]

Medium

etching and aquatint printed in brown with gold leaf

Dimensions

mount: 48.7 × 33.5 cm (19 3/16 × 13 3/16 in.)

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 30.4 × 22.8 cm (11 15/16 × 9 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schwaighofer 36

Accession Number

1948.11.282

Artists / Makers

Maria Catharina Prestel (artist) German, 1747 - 1794

Jacopo Ligozzi (artist after) Italian, 1547 - 1627

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de Jacques Ligozzi; in plate, below image, at left: E. Museo Prauniano; below image, at right: No. 24 / M. Cath Prestel Sc. Norimb. 1781 [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Provenance

(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

2021: Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 135, fig. 6.