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Etching after Dominique-Vivant Denon (1747-1825). Size of sheet: 20.5 x 15.2 cm.
Very fine impression after the etching of Dominique Vivant Denon in reverse (T.I.B. 188).
The print is now in the same direction as the self-portrait by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842) dated 1790 (Ickworth House, Suffolk, no. 851782).
Costantino Cumano, together with Francesco Novelli (1764-1836), belonged to the small group of students of Dominique-Vivant Denon in Venice[1].
The largest part of Cumano’s known printed oeuvre is after Old Masters and mostly after Rembrandt. Further copies after Dominique-Vivant Denon are known and both artists probably collaborated on the print.
[1] 1 A surveillance report by Bastian Benincasa dated May 24 1791, recorded the habits of Vivant Denon and his students. Quintessential to this report is: They came every morning around 10 am to Denon’s studio and worked until the end of the day!! (Venise, Arch. Di Stat. IS 1240, dr. 166, see Exh. Cat., Dominique Vivant Denon, Paris, 1999, p. 498).
