Birth Scene

Giulio Benso

Artist, Genoese, 1592 - 1668

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brush and brown and blue ink with black chalk, heightened with white opaque watercolor, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 23.9 x 34.8 cm (9 7/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
    support: 26.3 x 36.9 cm (10 3/8 x 14 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.8898

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1962

  • Drawings from the National Gallery of Art Collections, National Gallery of Art, 1962

Bibliography

1972

  • Newcombe, M., Genoese Baroque Drawings. Binghamton, New York, 1972: 44

Inscriptions

lower center verso: Cangiaso; lower right verso on old mount: Supposed to bethe Birth of Ed. the 2nd; lower right verso on old mount: 1408

Watermarks

illegible design inside a circle with letters below

Wikidata ID

Q64572452

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