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Giovanni Battista Beinaschi

Nude Youth Leaning on a Cloud and Gazing Upward, c. 1675

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Medium

black chalk heightened with white on brown-red laid paper

Dimensions

Overall: 36.3 x 49.2 cm (14 5/16 x 19 3/8 in.)
support: 41.5 x 56 cm (16 5/16 x 22 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1993.31.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Beinaschi (artist) Italian, 1636 - 1688

Image Use

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Provenance

(sale, Christie's, New York, 13 January 1988, lot 8); Unidentified Collector, New York (sale, Christie's, London, 20 April 1993, lot 104); purchased by NGA, 1993.

Associated Names

Christie's

Bibliography

1973: Salerno, L. Via Giulia, Rome 1973: fig. 244.

1991: Titi, F. Studio di Pittura, Scoltura, et Architettura nelle Chiese di Roma (1674-1763). Rome 1991: 2, fig. 1548.

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