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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R1365
People
Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Giorgione (Giorgio da Castelfranco), Italian (Castelfranco Veneto, Italy 1477 - 1510 Venice, Italy)
Title
Giorgione (David with the Head of Goliath)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Italian Portraits
Alternate Title: Giorgione de Castelfranco
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1650
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/243664

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on cream antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 26 × 19.7 cm (10 1/4 × 7 3/4 in.)
sheet: 27.2 × 21 cm (10 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, bottom margin: VERO RİTRATTO DE GİORGONE DE CASTEL FRANCO / da luy fatto come lo celebra il libro del VASARİ, / W: Hollar fecit ex Collectione Iohannis, et Iacobi van Verle, 1650, F. van den Wyngarde excudit,
  • collector's mark: blind stamp: CHALCOGRAPHIE DU LOUVRE / MUSEES NATIONAUX [arranged within a double bordered circle (Lugt 1695)]
  • inscription: lower margin of sheet, graphite: No. 16 / 500
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Randall Collection accession stamp (Lugt 2130)] 1365

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892. sister of John Witt Randall

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 1048, Pennington 1408

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R1365
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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