An Imperial Tomb: Elevation and Ground Plan, c. 1530

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with wash over blind stylus on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 42.1 × 26.5 cm (16 9/16 × 10 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

2015.72.1

Artists / Makers

Antonio da Sangallo (artist) Italian, 1483 - 1546

Image Use

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Inscription

at center in pen and brown ink: CAESAR AUGUSTUS DIVI

Provenance

Giuseppe Vallardi (his number, V.128, in red chalk on the verso). (sale, Christie's, London, 6 July 1999, no. 7, as Antonio da Sangallo the Younger; unsold). (sale, Christie's, Paris, 27 November 2002, no. 22, as Antonio da Sangallo the Younger; unsold). (sale, Christie's, London, 12 December 2003, no. 305, as Antonio da Sangallo the Younger); to Jan Krugier; (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 2015, no. 8, as North Italian School; unsold); purchased by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Galerie Jan Krugier
Sotheby's
Vallardi, Giuseppe

Bibliography

2001: Frommel, C. J. "Unbekannte Entwürfe Sangallos für di Gräber Leos X und Clemens VII" in Italia und Germania, liber amicorum Arnold Esch. Ed. Hagen Keller. Tübingen, 2001: 334-335, 357, fig. 20 (as by an Italian sculptor working around 1530-1540).