From "Bizzarie di varie Figure", 1624

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series Title

Bizzarie di varie Figure [1961.17.9-50]

Medium

etching

Dimensions

plate: 8.2 x 10.5 cm (3 1/4 x 4 1/8 in.)

sheet: 11.2 x 15 cm (4 7/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Preaud 1975, no. A (series)

Accession Number

1961.17.44

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Bracelli (artist) Italian, active c. 1624 - 1649

Image Use

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Provenance

Baroness Burdett Coutts [1814-1906], London; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 15 May 1922, no. 67); Arthur Rau. Robert de Billy. Alain Brieux. Irving Davis, London. Hans P. Kraus, New York, July 14, 1954; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, September 1954; gift to NGA, 1961.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1965: Drolleries and Demons: Six Centuries of 'Fantastic' Prints, IBM Gallery, New York, NY, 1965.

1989: Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Cleveland Museum of Art; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,1989, no. 118, repro.

1994: Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, as Calligraphic Figures From "Bizzarie di varie Figure".

Bibliography

1989: Reed, Sue Welsh and Richard Wallace. Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque. Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989: no.118.