Piazza by Moonlight, 1650s?

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white gouache, on blue prepared laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 26.7 x 41.7 cm (10 1/2 x 16 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

1991.150.44

Artists / Makers

Thomas Wyck (artist) Dutch, c. 1616 - 1677

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in brown ink: TWijck; by later hand, center verso in graphite: Jon Lingelbach / 1625-87; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: No 258. A B. B. G. G. / Lingel Lingelback / WO / 631; by later hand, lower left in graphite: B22

Provenance

(Walter Schatzki Gallery, New York); William B. O'Neal [1907-1994] Charlottesville, VA, January 1960; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

O'Neal, William B., Professor
Schatzki Gallery, Walter

Exhibition History

1961: Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, University of Virgina 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 (as Johannes Lingelbach).

1993: Drawings from the O'Neal Collection. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, 9.

1996: Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, 4 May-16 June, 1996.

Bibliography

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