Inscribed, in plate, below image: Procerum ex Familia Crotta Sanctorum Icones, | Quas Pater pinxit, obsequi:.mo animo Filius incidens | EXCEL.MO N.I VIRO D:D:IO.I ANTO.IO CROTTA Q:D:ALEXN . [~ above XN] | D:D:D: Inscribed, lower left: IOS: Dom. Tiepolo Ios. Bapta. Filius. Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [minor notations]
The Patron Saints of the Crotta Family, between mid-18th and early 19th century
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1696-1770
- Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727-1804
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
- Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 10 3/8 × 14 3/4 inches (26.4 × 37.5 cm)
Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund
58.221
Department
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Details
1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo; after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Patron Saints of the Crotta Family, between mid-18th and early 19th century, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund, 58.221.
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