Portraits
MARTIN ESSLINGER (1793-1841)
The bust of a woman [after Sebastiano del Piombo's 'Dorothea']
c.1813-1831Engraving | 10.4 x 11.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852119
A print of the head of the so-called 'Dorothea', a painting by Sebastiano del Piombo (c.1512-13) formerly in the collection of the Duke of Marloborough at Blenheim, and now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (inv. no.295B); reproduced in reverse, in an oval.
Creator(s)
Martin Esslinger (1793-1841) (engraver)
After Sebastiano Del Piombo (1485-1547) (artist)
10.4 x 11.0 cm (sheet of paper)
8.3 x 7.0 cm (image, oval)
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.144-7, no.22 (Sebastiano del Piombo 1485-1547 : edited by Claudio Strinati, Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann, 2008)
