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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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Still imageSupervised use *MGZFX Sch J Dur 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
  • Meytens, Martin van, 1695-1770.
  • Wagner, Joseph, 1706-1780.
  • Paulussen, Richard.
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.
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Added Author
Meytens, Martin van, 1695-1770. Artist
Wagner, Joseph, 1706-1780. Engraver
Paulussen, Richard. Engraver
Toscanini, Walter, 1898-1971. Donor
Research Call Number
*MGZFX Sch J Dur 1
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