Niccole (Standing Man), from the suite of Florentine Street Characters
Carlo Lasinio, Italian, 1759 - 1838
about 1790
Mezzotint and etching on paper
Complete set (12) of proof impressions
Overall: 15 3/8 × 10 1/4 in. (39 × 26 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Jean and Adolph Weil Jr. 1935 Fund, the Julia L. Whittier Fund, and the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
2010.42.11
Publisher
Società calcografica, Florence
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
In image, lower right: NICCOLE; in plate, bottom left, faint inscription, illegible; in plate, bottom right, faint inscription: [illegible] a Colo.
Course History
ITAL 23, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture, Nancy Canepa, Spring 2012
Published References
Paola Cassinelli Lazzeri, Carlo Lasinio: incisioni, Gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi, 90, Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2004, 52-55, no. XIV. Paola Cassinelli Lazeri, "Temi caricaturali nella produczione incisoria di Carlo Lasinio," Critica d'arte 55, nos.2-3 (April-September 1990: 66-73. Hans Wolfgang Singer, "Der Vierfarbendruck in der Gefolgschaft Jacob Christoffel le Blons mit Oeuvre-Verzeichnissen der Familie Gautier Dagoty, J. Roberts, J. Ladmirals und C. Lasinios," Monatshefte fur Kunstwissenschaft 10 (1917): 177-99, 281-292, 301-314; and 11 (1918): 52-73, esp. 62-63, nos.12-26.
Provenance
James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 2010.
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