Landscape with Figures by an Estuary with Sailing Boats, c. 1590/1595

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper; laid down

Dimensions

Overall: 11.2 x 18.6 cm (4 7/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
support: 15.4 x 22.7 cm (6 1/16 x 8 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David P. Tunick, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.17.1

Artists / Makers

Annibale Carracci (artist) Bolognese, 1560 - 1609

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right in black ink: 17; by later hand on mount, center verso in violet crayon: A. Collections / 2786

Provenance

Everard Jabach, Paris (?); Pierre Crozat (according to a letter from Bernadette Py); Sir Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921)(sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1921, no. 77); purchased by Archibald George B. Russell (born 1879)(Lugt Supp. 2770a)(sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 May 1928, no. 46); (bought by Durlacher, London); John Nicholas Brown, Providence; (David Tunick, New York, 1986); gift to NGA in 1991.

Associated Names

Brown, John Nicholas
Crozat the Younger, Pierre
Russell, Archibald George Blomefield
Tunick, David, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1925: Exhibition of Italian Art of the Seventeenth Century, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1925, no. 55, pl. XLIX.

1935: Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1935, no. 37.

1991: Art for the Nation, Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991, 46-47 (entry by Diane De Grazia).

Bibliography

1923: Borenius, Tancred. "Drawings in the Collection of Mr. Archibald G. B. Russell" The Connoisseur 66, no. 261, 1923: 10, pl. VII.

1971: Andrews, Keith. National Gallery of Scotland, Catalogue of Italian Drawings. Cambridge, 1971, 1: 33, under D 852.

1976: Byam Shaw, James. Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford. Oxford, 1976, 1: 249-250, under no. 944.

1984: Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth, sale cat., Christie's, London, 3 July 1984, under no. 9.

1987: Old Master Drawings, sale cat. Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1987, under no. 49.

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.46.

1993: Bailey, Stephen Michael, "Carracci Landscape Studies: The Drawings Related to the Recueil de 283 Estampes de Jabach," Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1993; UMI Dissertation Services, 2:591-592, 985, no. 189d (as circle of J. B. Corneille).