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Jacob Graf Durazzo
- Title
- Jacob Graf Durazzo [graphic] / M. van Meytens pxt. ; Schmutzer und Wagner sct. ; photogravure R. Paulussen, Wien.
- Author
- Schmutzer, Jakob Mathias, 1733-1811.
- Publication
- Wien : Gesellschaft f. vervielf. Kunst, [187-? or later]
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- Description
- 1 photomechanical print : photogravure, b&w; 41 x 31 cm., plate mark 34 x 24 cm.
- Summary
- Reproduction of an engraving. Half-length portrait of Count Giacomo Durazzo, an eighteenth-century diplomat, collector, and patron of the arts. He is seen with his right hand resting on a portfolio, his left gesturing towards a bookcase in the background.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Portraits.
- Photogravures.
- Note
- Caption title.
- On pedestal: Le C[omte] Jacques Durazzo, ambassadeur imperial a Venise en MDCCLXV.
- Druck & Verlag der Gesellschaft f. vervielf. Kunst in Wien.
- 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
- 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.
- Call Number
- *MGZFX Sch J Dur 1
- OCLC
- 825770190
- Author
- Schmutzer, Jakob Mathias, 1733-1811. Engraver
- Title
- Jacob Graf Durazzo [graphic] / M. van Meytens pxt. ; Schmutzer und Wagner sct. ; photogravure R. Paulussen, Wien.
- Imprint
- Wien : Gesellschaft f. vervielf. Kunst, [187-? or later]
- 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.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.For a portrait of Giacomo Durazzo's wife Ernestine, which was a pendant to this print, see: *MGZFD Dav G Dur 1.
- Source
- Gift; Walter Toscanini, 1970.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Meytens, Martin van, 1695-1770. ArtistWagner, Joseph, 1706-1780. EngraverPaulussen, Richard. EngraverToscanini, Walter, 1898-1971. Donor
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFX Sch J Dur 1