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The Sabine Women Negociate a Peace
1573
Giovanni Battista Fontana
1524 - 1587
Italian
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Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet: 5 1/4 × 6 3/4 inches (13.3 × 17.1 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S495.13
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Signed and dated, in plate, lower left of image: Battista Fonta | na. 1573.
Inscribed, in plate, below image: SABINAE MVLIERES BELLO SOPITO PACEM INTER ROMANOS AFFINES CONCILIANT
Stamp, in black, verso: W. H. F. K. Graf von Lepell (Lugt 1672) One stamp in black, two stamps in brown, verso: Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1606, 2922 and variation of 234)
Provenance
W. H. F. K. Graf von Lepell;November 1890, Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen (Berlin, Germany).
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Giovanni Battista Fontana, The Sabine Women Negociate a Peace, 1573, etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S495.13.
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