print
- Museum number
- 1847,0318.76
- Description
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Bust portrait of Pietro Aretino facing left set upon a ledge within a roundel.
Engraving
- Production date
- 1533
- Dimensions
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Height: 190 millimetres
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Width: 150 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bartsch suggests that this print is after Titian. For another impression see Sévigné XI.I.95; for a copy see 874,0613.578.
(Information from Pat Simons 3 August 2011). The print must date from around November 1533 because at that date Aretino acknowledged receipt of a gold chain from Francis I and the chain shown in this portrait exhibits a substantial fleur-de-lis. At the latest, it had been produced by November 1535 when a woodcut version appeared as the frontispiece to a reprint of Aretino's Cortigiana (Venice, Francesco Marcoliini the publisher).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1847
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1847,0318.76