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Bohemian Woman Telling Fortunes - Image 1
Bohemian Woman Telling Fortunes - Image 2

Benoit Audran II and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Bohemian Woman Telling Fortunes

1719-1728

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Bohemian Woman Telling Fortunes

1719-1728

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 294 x 391 mm. (11 9/16 x 15 3/8 in.) Plate: 258 x 314 mm. (10 3/16 x 12 3/8 in.) Image: 213 x 310 mm. (8 3/8 x 12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.3332
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes, Inventaire du fonds français: graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, vol.1-14, Paris: Le Garrec & Bibliothèque Nationale, 1930/31-1977, vol. 1 p. 236 no. 20. Cabinet Crozat (Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France...) vol. 1 part 2 (1729) no 93.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: lower center in plate: "Bohëmiene disant la bonne avanture. / Tableau de Michel-Ange Merigi, dit le Caravage, qui est dans le Cabinet du Roy. / Peint sur toile, haut de 2. pieds 8. pouces, large de 4. pieds 9. pouces, gravé par Benoist Audran."; lower right in plate: "93"; by later hand, lower left in graphite: "LB.41. vol.1. P.79"; by later hand, lower right in graphite (in diamond): "11371"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; D?TAM... / AUV...

Artist

Benoit Audran II

1697–1771

French, 1698-1772
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