print
- Museum number
- 2017,7006.7
- Title
- Object: Giosue' Carducci
- Description
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Half-length portrait of the poet Giosue' Carducci with his hands on his desk and bookcase behind; second state of two. 1906
Etching
- Production date
- 1906
- Dimensions
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Height: 548 millimetres (image)
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Height: 705 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 444 millimetres
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Width: 527 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Conconi studied architecture in Milan at the Brera Academy and was a member of the Scapigliatura circle. He made his first etching as early as 1877 and went on to become a sculptor, painter and illustrator.
He printed all his own plates on a press lent to him by the Famiglia Artistica, the Milan exhibiting society with which he frequently showed. As many of his prints were devoted to female figures, this etching of the poet Giosuè Carducci is unusual. It was etched by Conconi for a competition organized by the Reale Calcografia of Rome to celebrate Carducci winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1906, the first Italian to receive this award.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2017
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2017,7006.7
