About the Artwork
A Masquerader at a Coffee Shop
1775
Giovanni David
1743-1790
Italian
Unknown
Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink on laid paper
Plate: 9 3/8 × 6 1/2 inches (23.8 × 16.5 cm) Sheet: 15 1/2 × 10 3/4 inches (39.4 × 27.3 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Benson and Edith Ford Fund
73.172.1
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, on plate, lower left: David Gen. Inv. fecit.
Inscribed, in plate, lower left edge of image: Divers | PORTRAITS | graves a l'eau-forte, | et dedies | a Mr DOMINIQUE CORVI | Peintre Celebre | par | JEAN DAVID GENOIS | Son Eleve. | A VENISE. 1775. Inscribed, in plate; lower center: Le Masque au Caffe. | Laissons-la, croyez-moi, le Monde tel qu'il est Boil. Sat. 10.
Provenance
formerly in the collection of the descendants of the artist (Genoa, Italy). 1973-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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You, Yao-Fen. “From Novelty to Necessity: The Europeanization of Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate.” In Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World, ed. Yao-Fen You, Mimi Hellman, and Hope Saska. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2016, p. 22; 24 (ill.); 127–128, cat. 13.
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Giovanni David, A Masquerader at a Coffee Shop, 1775, etching and aquatint printed in brown ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Benson and Edith Ford Fund, 73.172.1.
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