Dotto maestro al giovanetto insegna (A young man being instructed in drawing by a learned teacher)
Antonio Capellan, Italian, about 1740 - after 1783
after Domenico Maggiotto, Italian, 1713 - 1794
about 1740
Etching on laid paper
Plate: 10 3/8 × 13 1/8 in. (26.4 × 33.3 cm)
Sheet: 10 3/4 × 13 3/8 in. (27.3 × 34 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift in memory of Mrs. Harvey Fisk by her children
PR.974.446
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left margin: Domenico Majotto pin.; inscribed, in plate, lower right margin: Antonio Capellan Scul. appo Wagner Ven.a [a in superscript] C.P.E.S.; inscribed, in plate, lower center: Dotto Maestro al Giovanetto insegna / Come studiando il ver, l'arte s'affini; inscribed, in plate, lower right: AO [in ligature] No. [o in superscript] 5.
Exhibition History
Artist as Object/Subject, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 18, 1999-March 12, 2000.
Aspects of Human Experience: Works from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 12, 1998-March 14, 1999.
Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.
Provenance
Elizabeth Richmond Fisk (1885-1966) [Mrs. Harvey Edward Fisk], Woodstock, Vermont; to her children, Elizabeth Fisk Tyler (1912-1978), Margaretta Fisk Paine (1915-1952); Ursula Fisk Clough (1917-1989), and Anne Fisk Howe (1921-2001), 1966; given to present collection, 1974.
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