Plate 12: A young man leaning on a staff looking outward, with an old man behind to his right; 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. Moschini and Palluchini refer to a title page of 1763. Teodoro Viero reissued a reduced set of 8 plates 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.81, p.53).
- Artist
- Giovanni Cattini|Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
- Date
- 1743
- Medium
- Etching
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Eric W. and Madeleine C. Sorensen, 1994
