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Triumph of Galatea
1772
Agostino Carracci (Artist) Italian, 1557-1602 Domenico Cunego (Artist) Italian, 1727-1794 Calcografia Nazionale (Publisher) Italian
Etching and engraving in ink on wove paper
Plate: 10 1/4 × 18 1/2 inches (26 × 47 cm) Sheet: 19 1/8 × 26 1/8 inches (48.6 × 66.4 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S341
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Agostino Carracci pinxit Inscribed, lower right: Dom. Cunego Sculpsit Romae 1772. Inscribed, center bottom margin: Galatea | Romae in Aedibus Farnesianis depicta Inscribed, upper right: 1002 31 Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: No 341 Inscribed, in black ink, bottom left edge of sheet: No 341. The Triumph of Galatea. By Domenico Cunego.
Provenance
April 1888, Royal Calcografia (Rome, Italy). Mrs. James E. Scripps [Harriet J.]
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Domenico Cunego; after Agostino Carracci, Triumph of Galatea, 1772, etching and engraving in ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S341.
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