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Le Marchand allant à Rialto (The Merchant at the Rialto)

Giovanni David · 1775

Giovanni David: Italian, 1743 - 1790

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Le Marchand allant à Rialto (The Merchant at the Rialto)

1775

etching and aquatint on laid paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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etching and aquatint on laid paper
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plate: 24.2 × 16.9 cm (9 1/2 × 6 5/8 in.) sheet: 38.1 × 27.1 cm (15 × 10 11/16 in.) (irregular)
Collection no.
2013.173.5
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Giovanni David. Le Marchand allant à Rialto (The Merchant at the Rialto). Giovanni David; 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_David,_Le_Marchand_allant_%C3%A0_Rialto_(The_Merchant_at_the_Rialto),_1775,_NGA_163480.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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Le Marchand allant à Rialto (The Merchant at the Rialto) — Giovanni David. 1775.

Medium: etching and aquatint on laid paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 24.2 × 16.9 cm (9 1/2 × 6 5/8 in.) sheet: 38.1 × 27.1 cm (15 × 10 11/16 in.) (irregular).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2013.173.5. New Century 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.

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Giovanni David. Le Marchand allant à Rialto (The Merchant at the Rialto). Giovanni David; 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_David,_Le_Marchand_allant_%C3%A0_Rialto_(The_Merchant_at_the_Rialto),_1775,_NGA_163480.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.