A Ceiling Decoration with Landscapes and Battles

c. 1620

Lazzaro Tavarone

Artist, Genoese, 1556 - 1641

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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

    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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