A Ceiling Decoration with Landscapes and Battles
c. 1620
Artist, Genoese, 1556 - 1641

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen, brown ink, watercolor and black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 38.6 x 37.8 cm (15 3/16 x 14 7/8 in.)
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Accession
2000.24.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
J. Kugel. Lodewijk Houthakker, Amsterdam. Private Collection, New York. (Nissman, Abromson, Ltd., Brookline); purchased 2000 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1975
Drawings: Techniques and Types. The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 1975, no. A.6 (as Luca Cambiaso).
1985
Wanden en plafonds. Tekeningen uit de verzameling Lodewijck Houthakker. Nijmeegs Museum "Commanderie van Sant Jan," Nijmegen; Vleeshal Grote Markt, Haarlem, 1985, no. 24.
2023
Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.
Bibliography
1989
Fuhring, Peter. Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornament. The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection. London, 1989: no. 296.
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower center recto in graphite: N. 119; by later hand, lower right verso in ink: gironimo di negro
Wikidata ID
Q64592847