A Ceiling Decoration with Landscapes and Battles

c. 1620

Lazzaro Tavarone

Associated Names
Lazzaro Tavarone

Artist, Genoese, 1556 - 1641

This is a drawing of an ornate decorative ceiling design. It features a square-grid design with intricate embellishments, including arched shapes with figures, elaborative scrollwork, and relief patterns. The color palette consists of earthy tones with hints of delicate blues in the central square area. The symmetrical composition reveals classical elements with a focus on the center.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen, brown ink, watercolor and black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 38.6 x 37.8 cm (15 3/16 x 14 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    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

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