Plate 3: Boy with a hat touching the face of a girl; from 'Icones ad vivum expressae' after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Giovanni Cattini|Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

1743 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

Cattini engraved a set of 15 plates (frontispiece plus 14 numbered plates) after Piazzetta, entitling them: Icones ad vivum expressae. Most copies of the set are dated 1754 on the title page. A fine early set in the Mariette album of Piazzetta engravings in the Biblioteque Nationale is dated 1743, published by Pasquali on behalf of Consul Joseph Smith who possessed the original drawings. Moschini and Palluchini refer to a title page of 1763. Teodoro Viero reissued a reduced set of 8 plates of the icones, plus title page, in 1767. Several prints in the set were also copied by Johann Lorenz Haid of Augsburg (1702 - 1750), 1743-1750 and by Franz Xavier Jungwirth of Munich (1720-1790) in 1753 (see: George Knox, Piazzetta, exh. cata., National Gallery, 1983, no. 25; Maria Wiel, L'eredità di Piazzetta, 1996, no. 72, p. 44).

Artist

Giovanni Cattini|Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Date

1743

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949