Three Muses and a Gesturing Putto

1560s

Giorgio Ghisi

Artist, Italian, 1520 - 1582

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 29.3 x 17 cm (11 9/16 x 6 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.45.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Boorsch/Lewis 1985, no. 35, State iii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Cantacuzene (not in Lugt). (Pia Gallo, New York); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1985

  • Boorsch, Suzanne and Michal and R.E. Lewis. The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985.

Inscriptions

lower center in image: FRAN. BOL. IN. / G. ME.; by later hand, lower right in brown ink: ...Primatice... / (not deciphered) Ggrave par George Mantuan; by later hand, verso in graphite: G. Ghisi B. 37 iv 292 + 170

Wikidata ID

Q76341284

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