Research Catalog

Title

Ernestine comt: de Durazzo née C: Weissenwolff ambassadrice imperiale a Venise [graphic] / David gen. in. et ornau. ; Vitalba vultum perfec.

Author

David, Giovanni, 1743-1790.

Publication

[ca. 1775-ca. 1780]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Vitalba, Giovanni, 1738-1792.
• Durazzo, Giacomo, 1717-1794.

Description

1 print : etching, aquatint; 44 x 30 cm., plate mark 27 x 21.3 cm.

Summary

A profile portrait of Ernestine Durazzo, née Weissenwolf, spouse of the diplomat, bibliophile and collector Giacomo Durazzo, appears within an oval. A frame surrounding the oval is decorated with two books, a cushion, a stringed instrument and sheet of music, two doves, and a bow and quiver of arrows. This print served as a pendant to the etched portrait of Count Giacomo Durazzo.

Subjects

• Weissenwolf Durazzo, Ernestine Aloisia, contessa, 1732-1794
• Collectors and collecting > Italy > Venice
• Etchings
• Portraits
• Collectors and collecting > History > 18th century

Genre/Form

• Etchings.
• Portraits.

Note

• Caption title.

Indexed In (note)

• Brown, Bruce Alan, "I cacciatori amanti: the portrait of Count Giacomo Durazzo and his wife by Martin van Meytens the Younger," Metropolitan Museum journal, vol. 32, 1997

Source (note)

• Walter Toscanini

Biography (note)

• Among his many achievements, Count Giacomo Durazzo was appointed director of the imperial theatres in Vienna in 1754. He fostered Christoph Willibald Gluck's reforms of the Italian opera.
• Giovanni David, a painter and printmaker from Cabella Ligure in the region of Genoa, was first active in Rome. In 1775, he moved to Venice where he was a protégé of Count Giacomo Durazzo from Genoa, imperial ambassador to the court of Vienna.
• The printmaker Giovanni Vitalba studied with Joseph Wagner in Venice and worked with Francesco Bartolozzi.

Call Number

*MGZFD Dav G Dur 1

OCLC

79821674

Author

David, Giovanni, 1743-1790. Artist

Title

Ernestine comt: de Durazzo née C: Weissenwolff ambassadrice imperiale a Venise [graphic] / David gen. in. et ornau. ; Vitalba vultum perfec.

Imprint

[ca. 1775-ca. 1780]

Indexed In:

Brown, Bruce Alan, "I cacciatori amanti: the portrait of Count Giacomo Durazzo and his wife by Martin van Meytens the Younger," Metropolitan Museum journal, vol. 32, 1997, p. 161-174.

Biography

Among his many achievements, Count Giacomo Durazzo was appointed director of the imperial theatres in Vienna in 1754. He fostered Christoph Willibald Gluck's reforms of the Italian opera.

Giovanni David, a painter and printmaker from Cabella Ligure in the region of Genoa, was first active in Rome. In 1775, he moved to Venice where he was a protégé of Count Giacomo Durazzo from Genoa, imperial ambassador to the court of Vienna.

The printmaker Giovanni Vitalba studied with Joseph Wagner in Venice and worked with Francesco Bartolozzi.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

For a photogravure of the portrait of Giacomo Durazzo, to which this portrait is a pendant, see: *MGZFX Sch J Dur 1.

This item may be offsite for digitization. For additional information please contact dance@nypl.org.

Source

Gift, Walter Toscanini, 1970.

Connect to:

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Added Author

Vitalba, Giovanni, 1738-1792. Engraver

Durazzo, Giacomo, 1717-1794. Associated name

Toscanini, Walter, 1898-1971. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZFD Dav G Dur 1