Arcadian Landscape (Quindi per aspro, e faticoso calle si discendea ne la profonda valle (So after a rough and exhausting journey, they descended into a deep valley)

Giovanni David (Italian, 1749–1790)

about 1776

Medium/Technique Etching and aquatint

Dimensions Sheet: 32.2 x 46.5 cm (12 11/16 x 18 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 23.1 x 32.8 cm (9 1/8 x 12 15/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of John Goelet

Accession Number1979.132

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Grasso (Schleier) I57, only state; not in Le Blanc

Marks Verso, lower right-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)

ProvenanceJohn Goelet, New York; his gift to the MFA March 14, 1979