Pietro Aretino
Portrait of Pietro Aretino, bust-length, seated behind a parapet in three-quarter profile to right, supporting his chin with left hand in a contemplating pose; young laurel plant next to tree stump at right; after Titian.
Artwork Details
- Title: Pietro Aretino
- Series/Portfolio: Italian portraits: Ten plates (New Hollstein 1042-1051)
- Etcher: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
- Artist: After Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Pieve di Cadore ca. 1485/90?–1576 Venice)
- Sitter: Pietro Aretino (Italian, 1492-1556)
- Publisher: Frans van den Wyngaerde (Flemish, Antwerp 1614–1679 Antwerp)
- Date: 1649
- Medium: Etching, only state
- Dimensions: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 3/16 in. (25.3 × 18.2 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
- Object Number: 24.63.18
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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