The Sacrifice of Elijah before King Ahab

1680s

Nicola Malinconico

Artist, Italian, 1663 - 1721

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown and black ink with brown wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (arched top): 61.5 x 47.8 cm (24 3/16 x 18 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.53.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 2 July 1985, no. 67, as Paolo de' Matteis, A King Sacrificing); Private Collection, Switzerland. (Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1999

  • Scavizzi, Giuseppe. "Drawings by Artists in Giordano's Circle: Simonelli, Malinconico, and De Matteis." Master Drawings 37 (1999): 246, fig. 15.

2000

  • Paul Prouté S.A., Dessins / Estampes, Catalogue "Prud'hon". Paris, 2000: no. 10.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 990355

Wikidata ID

Q64618481


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