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Mercury Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Care of the Nymphs

Andrea Procaccini and Carlo Maratti

Mercury Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Care of the Nymphs

1698-1708

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Mercury Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Care of the Nymphs

1698-1708

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 310 × 435 mm. (12 3/16 × 17 1/8 in.) Image: 280 × 430 mm. (11 × 16 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.272

Inscribed: Recto: below image, center, in plate four lines of text in Italian beginning with "All' Illmo. Sigre. Sigre. Pron Cotmo Il Sigr. Marchese Nicolò Maria Pallauicino [...]"; below image, lower center left, in plate "C(?)ques Carot. Maratti inu(?)"; below image, lower center, in plate "Cum Priuil. Sum. Pont. et Regis Christianissimi"; below image, center right, in plate "Diustiß. et obligatiß. f(?)eru / Andrea Procaccini Sculp. F.M." Verso: center in graphite "[indecipherable] / 19(?) x 25 [indecipherable] Mat(?)[indecipherable]"; lower right in graphite diamond with "6054"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Andrea Procaccini

1670–1733

Italian, 1671 - 1734
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Artist

Carlo Maratti

1624–1712

Italian, 1625-1713
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