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Francesco Bartolozzi, printmaker
Italian, circa 1725 - 1815
The Toilet of Venus, 1784
Engraving and etching
44.2 x 50 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.36202
after, Angelica Catharina Marie Anna Kauffman
Artist Credit: all
Artist Biography: Engraver, born in Florence ca. 1725-1728 (authorities disagree re his birth date), worked in Joseph Wagner's shop in Venice from 1745, becoming his principal collaborator. Worked independently in Venice until leaving for Rome in 1760. Settled in London in 1764, moved to Lisbon 1802, where he died on 7 March 1815. See: Lazzaro, Claudia. Eighteenth-Century Italian Prints. Stanford: 1981.~~Reference: De Vesme, A. & A. Calabi. Francesco Bertolozzi. Milan: 1928.~
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