Court of the Former State Inquisitors

1797

Giovanni De Pian

Artist, Italian, 1764 - 1800

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.7 × 30.2 cm (9 5/16 × 11 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 27.9 × 34.9 cm (11 × 13 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.137.8

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(La Portantina di Mattia Jona, Milan); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

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

Inscriptions

in plate, below image, at left: Galimberti dissegno; in plate, below image, at right: de Pian scul.; in plate, below image, at center: Tribunale degli ex Inquisitori di Stato / Lunghezza della stanza piedi Veneti 17 1/2 Lunghezza 13 altezza 11 No. 8; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 582; by later hand, upper left verso in pen and brown ink: 8 [in circle]; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: Pian (De) Gio; C34

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