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.
Label
In this etching, an elderly teacher supports a portrait bust with one hand while he directs his pupil’s gaze toward the sculpture. On the sheet in front of the student, a few lines capture the contours of the carved face. Artists have practiced drawing with sculptural works as models for centuries. The inscription on this print gives one reason why; the second line reads “by studying the truth the art becomes refined.”
From the 2024 exhibition Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, curated by Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art, and Ashley B. Offill, Curator of Collections
Course History
History 42.01, Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies 22.01, Gender & European Society, Patrick Meehan, Spring 2024
History 96.39, Saints and Relics, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Spring 2024
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Noemi Perego, Spring 2024
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Tania Convertini, Spring 2024
Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2024
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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