print
- Museum number
- 1871,1209.624
- Title
- Object: D. Petrus Arretinus Flagellum Principum
- Description
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Portrait of Pietro Aretino, bust in profile to left set upon a lettered ledge, within a lettered oval; print trimmed around the oval
Engraving
- Production date
- 1533-1535
- Dimensions
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Height: 190 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 152 millimetres (trimmed)
- $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, and 1847,0318.76
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 Marcolini, 1535.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1871
- Acquisition notes
- Partially illegible collector's mark on verso.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1871,1209.624
