Le Masque au caffé (The Masked Man Taking Coffee)
Giovanni David
1775
Medium
etching and aquatint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 24.1 × 16.5 cm (9 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.) sheet: 39.8 × 27.8 cm (15 11/16 × 10 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
New Century Fund
Accession Number
2013.173.1
About the Artist
Giovanni David · 1749–1790
Giovanni David (1743–1790) was a Genoese painter and etcher whose brief career, shaped by distinguished patronage and wide-ranging travel, produced a body of work remarkable for its experimental verve. Born in Genoa, he came under the protection of Count Giacomo Durazzo, a cultivated Genoese nobleman and diplomat who became the defining figure of his artistic life. Durazzo sponsored David's traini...