A Mythological Scene with Sea Gods

Not on View

Medium

brown wash and pen and brown ink over graphite, heightened with white, on brown wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 20 x 27.1 cm (7 7/8 x 10 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of William B. O'Neal, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.150.8

Artists / Makers

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (artist) Venetian, 1762 - 1844

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in pen and brown ink: Bison

Provenance

Private collection (Lugt unidentified); Professor Tito Miotti, Udine, ITA, by 1962; Spencer Drummond Limited, Hamilton, Bermuda; William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA, April 1977; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Drummond Limited, Spencer
Miotti, Tito
O'Neal, William B., Professor

Exhibition History

1962: Cento Disegni del Bison, Udine, ITA, 1962-63, 55.

1962: Il Collezionista di Disegni, Tito Miotti, Venice, 1962, 93.

Bibliography

1993: National Gallery of Art. Drawings from the O'Neal Collection. Exh. cat. Washington, 1993, checklist p. 91.