Seated Man in Sixteenth-Century Costume

c. 1878

Gioacchino Banfi

Artist, Italian, 1851 - 1885

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint with drypoint on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of James A. Bergquist

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.4 × 15.1 cm (7 5/8 × 5 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.4 × 22.1 cm (10 13/16 × 8 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2023.120.21

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mezzetti 1935, no. 20

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Augusto Federico Calabi (1890-1973); by descent to his son Lorenzo Calabi (1922-Boston 18 January 2016); James A. Bergquist; gift to National Gallery of Art, 2023.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1935

  • Mezzetti, Amalia.L'acquaforte lombarda nella seconda metà dell'800. Milan, 1935: no. 20

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, in image, at lower left: G. Banfi

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