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Jacob de Wit

Study for a Ceiling: Allegory of the Harvest with Dionysus and Ceres

Not on View

Medium

pen and black and brown inks with gray and brown washes on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 16.2 x 15.9 cm (6 3/8 x 6 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

1991.150.17

Artists / Makers

Jacob de Wit (artist) Dutch, 1695 - 1754

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Inscription

lower left in brown ink: JdeWit [illegible]

Provenance

(Durlacher Brothers, New York); William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA, March 1955; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Durlacher Brothers
O'Neal, William B., Professor

Exhibition History

1961: Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, University of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Charlottesville, March 5-25, 1961.

1973: Master Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, Walter Cecil Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA and tour, 1973-1975.

Bibliography

1975: "Drawings for Theater and Architecture: A Special View of a Noted Virginia Collection of Master Drawings," Arts in Virginia, 15 (Spring 1975), 2, 11 (illus.)

1993: National Gallery of Art. Drawings from the O'Neal Collection. Exh. cat. Washington, 1993, checklist p. 96.

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