An Allegory of Painting
Pietro Testa, Italian, 1612 - 1650
about 1637-1638
Etching on laid paper
Plate: 11 1/4 × 13 1/8 in. (28.5 × 33.3 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 13 7/8 in. (29.9 × 35.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund
PR.990.7
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower margin: All Eminent.mo et Rev.mo Sig.re it Pron mio Col.mo Il Sig.r Card. Franciotti./ Divotiss.mo e l'ossequio mio verso V. Em. ma tanto abbandonato dalle forze, che non trova modo da comparire. Compensero il difetto della fortuna, co[n] suoi l'ingegno dell'arte, e chia:/ mando la Pittura co[n] suoi seguaci, otterro forse, che riceva tra l'ombre sue un debil lume almeno del mio sinceriss. affetto, e co[n] suoi colori riduca, come si puo sotto qli occhi/ di V.Em. una forma di sua natura invisibile, cioe l'animo mio colmo di riverenza, e di fede. Di V. Em. divotiss.mo servitore Pietro Testa./ Gio. Iac. Rossile stampa alla Pace
Course History
ITAL 23, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture, Nancy Canepa, Spring 2012
ITAL 23, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture, Nancy Canepa, Winter 2015
ITAL 23, 17th and 18th Century Italian Literature, Nancy Canepa, Spring 2022
Exhibition History
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 51.
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.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 1, 2008.
Publication History
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 51.
Provenance
Pia Gallo Fine Old Master and Modern Prints, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1990.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch 29; Cropper 37 Bellini 15,state II/III Cropper 37
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