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Francesco Bartolozzi, engraver
Italian, circa 1725 - 1815
Rachel Hiding the Idols of Laban, after Pietro da Cortona, 1765
Engraving in sepia ink
29.7 x 42.3 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.36204

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after, Pietro Berrettini (Pietro da Cortona)

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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.~