The Triumph of Truth Over Envy
1781
Artist, German, 1747 - 1794
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and aquatint printed in brown with gold leaf
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
mount: 48.7 × 33.5 cm (19 3/16 × 13 3/16 in.)
sheet (trimmed within platemark): 30.4 × 22.8 cm (11 15/16 × 9 in.) -
Accession
1948.11.282
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schwaighofer 36
Associated Artworks
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Three Lansquenets
Maria Catharina Prestel
1780
Saint Barbara
Johann Gottlieb Prestel
1782
Head of a Woman
Johann Gottlieb Prestel
1782
More About this Artwork
Video: Two-Minute Tour: Aquatint
Join exhibition curator Rena Hoisington on a two-minute tour of Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, which was on view at the National Gallery of Art from October 24, 2021, to February 21, 2022.
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2021
Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.
Bibliography
2021
Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 135, fig. 6.
Inscriptions
in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de Jacques Ligozzi; in plate, below image, at left: E. Museo Prauniano; below image, at right: No. 24 / M. Cath Prestel Sc. Norimb. 1781 [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]
Wikidata ID
Q65080372