Twee hoofden van Gorgonen, Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, after anonymous, c. 1650 - c. 1670

Title(s)

Twee hoofden van Gorgonen

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2020-84

Catalogue reference

• Bartsch 12
• The Illustrated Bartsch 12-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 5100
• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Artist

• print maker: Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi (mentioned on object)
• after sculpture by: anonymous

Place

Italy

Dating

c. 1650 - c. 1670

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 101 mm × width 132 mm

What

• piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture
• Gorgoneion, head of Medusa
• Gorgons

Credit line

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

Acquisition

purchase 23-Apr-2020

Copyright

Public domain

• Italian masters of the seventeenth century, Paolo Bellini, dl. 46 (Commentary), p. 161, cat.nr. 12
• Le peintre graveur, Adam von, 1757-1821 Bartsch, dl. 21, p. 56, cat.nr. 12
• Nicolaas Teeuwisse Selected Works Tefaf 2020, nr. 63.