33C. Mihai Viteazul (Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia)
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33C. Mihai Viteazul (Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia)
etching, 9 x 5.5 cm, 5,5x9, signed bottom left, engraved "Aman"; titled, engraved, central bottom, under the frame, "MIHAI VITEAZUL"
Research information
A variant of the engraving is catalogued in the "Romanian graphic repertory of the XIXth century", vol.I, A-R, Bucharest 1974, cat. 168. A variant of the engraving is reproduced in "Theodor Aman gravor", Catalogue by Mariana Vida, National Art Museum, Drawings and Engravings Cabinet, Bucharest 1993, at page 79, category 98.
PROVENANCE
until 1964, the dr. Ioan Dumitrescu-Popovici collection; 1964-2004, the patrimony of the Romanian National Art Museum; since 2004, the collection of the Dumitrescu-Popovici family’s heirs.
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