Two hunters direct the reckoning up of their quarry of waterfowl; the gamekeeper lists them in a notebook; and a boy separates out the birds. Line engraving by M. Pitteri after P. Longhi.

  • Longhi, Pietro, 1702-1785.
Date:
1760-1769
Reference:
3044025i
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About this work

Also known as

Also identified as : Il conteggio della cacciagione
Also identified as : Counting the bag

Publication/Creation

1760-1769

Physical description

1 print : line engraving, with etching ; image 58.8 x 48.3 cm

Lettering

Or lieto il cacciator di sua fatica / Novera, e parte in un la preda amica. / Dividit [sic], et numerat praedam venator amicam / Gaudia nunc capiens parta labore suo. Petrus Longhi pinxit Ven.is ; Marcus Pitteri sculpsit Ven.is.

References note

Terisio Pignatti, Pietro Longhi: paintings and drawings, London: Phaidon, 1969, p. 103, fig. 58
G. Marini, 'Pietro Longhi and his engravers', Print quarterly, 1994, vol. 11, pp. 401-410

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3044025i

Reproduction note

After: one of seven paintings in the same series that were painted by Pietro Longhi for the Barbarigo family and which in 1934 were deposited in the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice; engraved in the same direction as the painting

Notes

The seventh episode in the series called La caccia in valle (Hunting n the valley)

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