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Plate 12: A young man leaning on a staff looking outward, with an old man behind to his right; from 'Icones ad vivum expressae' after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

1743
Not on view
Cattini engraved a set of 15 plates (frontispiece plus 14 numbered plates) after Piazzetta, entitling them: Icones ad vivum expressae. Most copies of the set are dated 1754 on the title page. A fine early set in the Mariette album of Piazzetta engravings in the Biblioteque Nationale is dated 1743. Moschini and Palluchini refer to a title page of 1763. Teodoro Viero reissued a reduced set of 8 plates plus title page in 1767. Several prints in the set were also copied by Johann Lorenz Haid of Augsburg (1702 - 1750), 1743-1750 and by Franz Xavier Jungwirth of Munich (1720-1790) in 1753 (see: George Knox, Piazzetta, exh. cata., National Gallery, 1983, no. 25; Maria Wiel, L'eredità di Piazzetta, 1996, no.81, p.53).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Plate 12: A young man leaning on a staff looking outward, with an old man behind to his right; from 'Icones ad vivum expressae' after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
  • Artist: Giovanni Cattini (Italian, Venice ca. 1715–ca. 1800 Venice)
  • Artist: After Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, Venice 1682–1754 Venice)
  • Date: 1743
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Plate: 17 15/16 × 13 7/16 in. (45.6 × 34.1 cm)
    Sheet: 19 7/8 × 15 1/2 in. (50.5 × 39.4 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Eric W. and Madeleine C. Sorensen, 1994
  • Object Number: 1994.537.5
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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