Conquest of a Town

1380/1420

Altichiero da Zevio

Artist, Veronese, active c. 1369 - 1388

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper mounted on original pale blue album sheet

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (three corners made up): 24 x 18.2 cm (9 7/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.25.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably Antonio Badile the Younger, Verona (1424 - c. 1507). Moscardo Family, Verona (Lugt 2990h). (Matthiesen Gallery, London, 1954); Francis Matthiesen [Franz Zatzenstein, 1897-1963] London, 1954; (his executor's sale, Sotheby's, London, 21 October 1963, no. 77); (L'Art Ancien, Zurich). Tito Miotti, Udine; Loriano Bertini, Prato, 1973; Dr. Michel Gaud, France; (sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, 20 June 1987, no. 77, bought in); Hubert Marignane; Ian Woodner Family Collection, Inc., New York; gift to NGA in 2000.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1964

  • Austellung von Zeichnungen älter Meister, L'Art Ancien, Zurich, 1964, no. 54.

1990

  • Woodner Collection: Master Drawings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 2.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1965

  • Mellini, Gian Lorenzo. Altichiero e Jacopo Avanzi. Milan, 1965: 34-36, fig. 48.

1974

  • Schmitt, Annegrit. "Zur Wiederbelebung der Antike im Trecento." Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorisches Instituts in Florenz 28 (1974): 180, 183, fig. 16.

1980

  • Degenhart, Bernhard, and Annegrit Schmitt. Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen 1300 -1450, II/1: Addenda zu Süd- und Mittelitalien. Berlin, 1980: 125, note 13.

1983

  • Byam Shaw, James. The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection. Paris, 1983: 209 and note 2.

1996

  • Rowlands, Eliot W. "Altichiero (di Domenico da Zevio)." In The Dictionary of Art, 34 vols. Edited by Jane Turner. New York, 1996: 1:725.

2010

  • Degenhart, Bernhard, and Annegrit Schmitt. Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450. Teil III-Verona-Band 3: Badile-Album. Munich, 2010: 214-220, Kat. 816, Tafel 39 (as Veronese, early 15th century)(entry by Annegrit Schmitt).

Inscriptions

by early 16th-century hand, across top of album sheet in brown ink: di maestro altichiero qual dipinse la Sala de podesta

Wikidata ID

Q64536763

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