Description
The Roman painter and engraver Ottavio Leoni transformed his famous group of highly finished chalk portraits into hundreds of prints. These amount to a compendium of important artists in early-17th-century Rome. Like Giovanni Baglione (1920.2303), Leoni’s portrait of Marcellus Provenzalis is a keen characterization of an artist. This engraving is among Leoni’s early prints and betrays his immature, slightly awkward cross-hatching.
Accession Number
109034
Medium
Engraving on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 14.4 × 11.2 cm (5 11/16 × 4 7/16 in.); Sheet: 16.8 × 13.7 cm (6 5/8 × 5 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Credit Line
The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections