Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin). Line engraving by M. Pitteri after G.B. Piazzetta.

1743

Trinitatis delicia Virgo Maria. Joannes Bapt. Piazzetta pinxit. Marcus Pitteri sculpsit.

Adriano Mariuz, L'opera completa del Piazzetta, Milan 1982, p. 112, no. 168

Robin Halwas, 'An album of thirty-six prints reproducing paintings and drawings by Piazzetta, engraved by Giovanni Cattini or Marco Pitteri', https://www.robinhalwas.com (accessed 2 April 2018)

Wellcome Collection 10185i

One of sixteen prints after "Fifteen heads of the most renowned drawings of Giambattista Piazzetta" and one of Saint Paul. In an official application of 1742 the engraver Marco Pitteri referred to them as "Quindici teste delli più rinomati dissegni di Giambatta Piazzetta". In response the Venetian Senate stipulated "che l'incisione stessa sia di sacre imagini' --Halwas, loc. cit. The prints of the twelve Apostles bear a serial number in Roman numerals after the engraver's name; the four prints of God, Christ the Redeemer, the Virgin, and Saint Paul bear no number