The Celebration of High Mass
<p>Working with her husband, Johann Gottlieb Prestel (1739–1808), Maria Prestel created the <em>Schmidt’sches Kabinett (Schmidt’s Art Cabinet)</em>, a compilation of prints reproducing works owned by the collector Gerhard Joachim Schmidt (1742–1801). Prestel combined etching and aquatint, replicating Jacopo Vignali’s original pen-and-wash drawings. The highlights suggest wispy rays of light, or haloes, which radiate from the monks’ tonsured heads. In the lower-left corner is an incense burner, perhaps held by a monk just out of sight, who is participating in the Mass.</p>
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- Year
- 1771
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 32.8 × 23.7 cm (12 15/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 41.7 × 31.2 cm (16 7/16 × 12 5/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Maria Katharina Prestel
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Maria Katharina Prestel (German, 1747-1794)
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Dessins des meilleures peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pays-Bas, Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Das kleine Kabinett) (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, from Various Famous Cabinets [The Small Cabinet])
1782 · Bound album with 36 etchings and aquatints
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1781 · Etching and aquatint, from three plates, in brown and black, with metallic gold, on ivory laid paper
Old Man Pointing Left, plate 8 from Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets
1780 · Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper
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- Maria Katharina Prestel
- Year
- 1771
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 32.8 × 23.7 cm (12 15/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 41.7 × 31.2 cm (16 7/16 × 12 5/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1771-082773
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- Art Institute of Chicago
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