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Time Unveiling Truth


Youth Favored by Fortune
Giovanni Cesare Testa (Italian, died 1655)
After: Pietro Testa (Italian, 1612–1650)
about 1650–55

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 40.2 x 28.5 cm (15 13/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
Platemark: 34.7 x 23 cm (13 11/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Aimée and Miss Rosamond Lamb
Accession Number69.1033
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bellini (Giovanni Cesare Testa), Part 2, Summary List of "Ideas", 22 (Bellini lists three states, but the state of this impression cannot be determined, as the lower margin is trimmed off)
Marks Verso, lower right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
InscriptionsEngraved in the plate, lower left, "In Poma [sic] da Vincenzo Billy"; etched in the plate, lower right, "Pietro Testa delineauit."
ProvenanceAimée and Rosamond Lamb; their gift to the MFA June 11, 1969