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A Venetian Courtesan

1739

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The story

Faber scraped this mezzotint in 1739 after a painting by Philippe Mercier, a portrait of a Venetian courtesan in jewels and a gown. The verse beneath warns that this sort of beauty "checks Desire, where most it would invite."

Source, Yale Center for British Art

Object details

Title: A Venetian Courtesan
Artist: John Faber Jr
Date: 1739
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Mezzotint
Object type: Other
Collection: Yale Center for British Art
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License CC0.
Object number: EFA.0447
Original image: 1350 × 1920 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

John Faber Jr. A Venetian Courtesan. 1739. Yale Center for British Art. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License CC0. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0447/