The Virgin and Child Enthroned, Adored by Saints

1790s(?)

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Artist, Venetian, 1762 - 1844

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper with separate sheet pasted down

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Dian Woodner

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 29.2 × 20.6 cm (11 1/2 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.56.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Litta collection; (sale, Christie's London, 25 March 1969, no. 191); Paul Walraf. (sale, Sotheby's London, 18 April 1996, no. 77); Private collection; (sale, Christie's New York, 29 January 2015, no. 18); (via Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, New York), purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in brown ink: Bison; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Bison

Wikidata ID

Q64572485

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