Ancient Roman Warriors Riding into Battle, c. 1597

Not on View

Medium

black chalk with brown wash, heightened with white gouache on light brown laid paper, with later framing line in brown ink

Dimensions

overall: 26.4 x 39.2 cm (10 3/8 x 15 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

1990.10.1

Artists / Makers

Antoine Caron (artist) French, 1521 - 1599

Image Use

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Provenance

Samuel Wagstaff, Jr., New York (1921-1987); private collection (sale, Christie's, New York, 10 January 1990, lot 102); NGA purchase via Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London in 1990.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd.

Exhibition History

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 38-39, 275-276, no. 10 (color).

Bibliography

1990: Christies, OLD MASTER DRWGS, NY: 1/10/90, 102 (illus.).