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Antonio Balestra

The Madonna and Child in Glory with Saints Gregory the Great and Andrew, 1734/1735

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Medium

pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (lunette): 46.8 × 22.7 cm (18 7/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1972.49.5

Artists / Makers

Antonio Balestra (artist) Venetian, 1666 - 1740

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in brown ink: Antonio Balestra

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi, Ltd., London); purchased 1972 by NGA.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 49.

Bibliography

1974: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts: Sculptures, Drawings, Prints. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974: 204.

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