Martelaarschap van Heilige Agatha, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1753 - 1757

Title(s)

Martelaarschap van Heilige Agatha

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1950-522

Catalogue reference

• De Vesme 58-1(2)
• Rizzi 130-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2760
• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (mentioned on object)

Place

Venice

Dating

1753 - 1757

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 434 mm × width 233 mm

What

• the virgin martyr Agatha of Catania; possible attributes: breasts on dish, burning house, loaf, taper or candle, tongs

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1950

Copyright

Public domain

• Etchings by the Tiepolos : Domenico Tiepolo's collection of the family etchings from an album in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York, Jean Sutherland Boggs, Elaine Evans Dee, George Knox, p. 100, cat.nr. 122
• The etchings of the Tiepolos : complete edition, Aldo Rizzi, Lucia Wildt, p. 286, 287, cat.nr. 130-1
• Le Peintre-graveur italien : ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch, p. 408, 409, cat.nr. 59-1