The Temple of Hercules at Cori

c.1784

Johann Gottlieb Prestel

Artist, German, 1739 - 1808

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color etching and aquatint with roulette on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 49.1 x 65.1 cm (19 5/16 x 25 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2010.86.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Le Blanc 1854 - 1888, no. undesc.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Carel Joseph Frederik Johan Maassen, Amsterdam (Lugt 1774b). (sale, Reiss & Sohn oHG, Königstein im Taunus, 30 April 2010, no. 179); (via C. G. Boerner, Inc., New York); purchased 2010 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

1854

  • Le Blanc, Charles. _Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels: no. undesc.

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 143, fig. 8.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, at lower right: J. Prestel sc.; verso: at center, in graphite: 1/2

Wikidata ID

Q76552926

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