Saint Irene and Companions Tending Saint Sebastian
1770's
18th century
39.8 cm x 26.7 cm (15 11/16 in. x 10 1/2 in.)
Giovanni David
(Cabella Ligure (Alessandria), 1749 - 1790, Genoa)
Primary
Object Type:
print
Artist Nationality:
Europe, Italian
Medium and Support:
Etching
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Karen G. and Dr. Elgin W. Ware, Jr. Collection, 2001
Accession Number:
2001.14
David’s etchings are numerous, but because their editions were small – intended for a small circle of Genoese nobles and collectors -- few were recorded in the 19th-century repertories, and most are very rare. Conspicuous in its debt to 17th-century Genoese artists, this idiosyncratic nocturne is known in only one other impression, in Berlin.