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Vedetta [Il gentiluomo] (The Lookout [The Gentleman])
1874
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching with plate tone on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 15.9 × 12.2 cm (6 1/4 × 4 13/16 in.) sheet: 38.9 × 28.7 cm (15 5/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2013.171.5
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giovanni Battista Quadrone. Vedetta [Il gentiluomo] (The Lookout [The Gentleman]). Giovanni Battista Quadrone; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Battista_Quadrone,_Vedetta_(Il_gentiluomo)_(The_Lookout_(The_Gentleman)),_1874,_NGA_163148.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Vedetta [Il gentiluomo] (The Lookout [The Gentleman]) — Giovanni Battista Quadrone. 1874.
Medium: etching with plate tone on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 15.9 × 12.2 cm (6 1/4 × 4 13/16 in.) sheet: 38.9 × 28.7 cm (15 5/16 × 11 5/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2013.171.5. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.