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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.258
People
Giovanni David, Italian (Cabella Ligure 1743 - 1790 Genoa)
Title
The Masked Man Taking Coffee
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Divers Portraits, Title Page
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1775
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370231

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and aquatint on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 23.8 × 16.7 cm (9 3/8 × 6 9/16 in.)
sheet: 39.2 × 27.5 cm (15 7/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: coat-of-arms with CE [?] [partial]
  • inscription: in plate, left: Divers / PORTRAITS / gravés à l'eauforte, / et dedies / à Mr. DOMINIQUE CORVI / Peintre Celebre / par / JEAN DAVID GENOIS / Son Éleve. / À VENISE. 1775.
  • inscription: in plate, lower left: David Gen. Inv. fecit.
  • inscription: in plate, lower center: Le Marque au Caffe / Laissons-là, croyez-moi, le Monde tel qu'il est. Boil. Sat.10

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein (cf. Lugt 2715a), sold; to [C. G. Boerner, New York and Dusseldorf], sold; to Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, 1997, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Newcombe Schleier and Grasso 11a

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.258
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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