Modesty and Vanity, number 5 of 40, from the album Schola Italica Picturea (Italian School of Painting)
Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1740 - 1803
Gavin Hamilton, Scottish, 1723 - 1798
after Bernardino Luini, Italian, about 1480 - about 1532
after Leonardo da Vinci, Italian, 1452 - 1519
1770; published 1800
Engraving on wove paper
2nd edition, 1800 (1st edition, 1773)
Sheet: 25 × 17 in. (63.5 × 43.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Awards Fund
2009.40.5
Publisher
Gavin Hamilton, Rome
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Numbered, upper right, in plate: 5; inscribed, lower left, in plate: Leonardus da Vinci pinxit; lower center: Modeftia et Vanitas / Romae in Aedibus Barberinis; lower right: Johannes Volpati sculp. 1770
Provenance
Grosvenor Prints, London, England; sold to present collection, 2009.
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