Interior of a Barn Built on Ancient Ruins

Michele Canzio

Artist, Genoese, 1787 - 1868

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown chalk over graphite on wove paper, incised for transfer

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 30.3 x 43.8 cm (11 15/16 x 17 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1997.75.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Lodewijk Houthakker, Amsterdam [Lugt undesc]); purchased by NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1976

  • De achtergrond belicht. Ontwerpen voor het theater 1580-1850, Noordbrabants Museum, s'Hertogenbosch; and Toneelmuseum, Amsterdam, 1976, no. 80.

Bibliography

1989

  • Fuhring, Peter. Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornaments, The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection. London, 1989: no. 956.

Inscriptions

by later hand?, lower center in graphite: M. Canzio; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: disegno originale di / Antonio Basoli; by later hand, center verso in red crayon: N. 64

Wikidata ID

Q64614700

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