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The image shows a person sitting atop a donkey, with a natural setting in the background. The individual appears serene, wearing simple clothes and a large hat. The background includes a tree, clouds, and a distant building.
National Gallery of Art · Print
Bertoldo Riding a Donkey
Giuseppe Maria Crespi and Ludovico Mattioli
- Date
- c. 1710/1715
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 22.9 × 14.8 cm (9 × 5 13/16 in.) sheet: 31 × 19.1 cm (12 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 2020.43.1
- Credit line
- William B. O'Neal Fund
- Time span
- 1701 to 1725
- Department
- CG-E
Portfolio and series
- Series
- Bertoldo, Bertoldino, e Cacasenno (plate 1)
Provenance
(Enrico Cortona, Milan); purchased 2020 by NGA.
Inscription
upper right in grapite: undeciperhable; in plate, below image, at left: Gios. Crespi In.; in plate, below image, at center: In compagnia di Mosche, e di Taffani Và Bertoldo dal Ré su'una Carogna, E sembra il General de Corteggiani; lower right in ink; undeciperhable 17.
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