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
- Pictures
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)
Type/Technique
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores