Five Men Fighting Beasts

1532

Master of the Die

Artist, Roman, active c. 1532

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet (cut to platemark): 28 x 42 cm (11 x 16 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.162.13

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 79

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 23, 1989; gift to NGA, 2006.

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.

Inscriptions

lower left on stump: 1532; by later hand in graphite, on mount: CB XV. no 79. p. 229, Dado; by later hand in graphite, on verso of mount: Maestro del Dado / cinque uomini combattano / contro i bestie feroce / B, XV 79

Wikidata ID

Q76348369

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