Guercino Self-Portrait
Medium
Etching, printed in brown ink; second state of two
Dimensions
Plate: 12 1/2 × 10 1/4 in. (31.7 × 26 cm) Sheet: 16 9/16 × 12 15/16 in. (42 × 32.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008
Accession Number
2018.839.142
Tags
About the Artist
Francesco Bartolozzi|Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)|John Boydell · 1727–1815
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727–1815) was an Italian engraver whose most productive period was spent in London, where he became the leading exponent of stipple engraving and a founding member of the Royal Academy. Born in Florence and trained first as a painter before turning to engraving in Venice, he established his reputation in Rome before being recruited by the English Royal Librarian Richard Dalt...