River God

c. 1720

Paul Troger

Artist, Austrian, 1698 - 1762

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk heightened on tan oatmeal paper, heightened with white chalk

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 44 × 53.7 cm (17 5/16 × 21 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.63.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Aschenbrenner 1965, undescribed

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Karl & Faber Munich, 9 June 1999, 71; Arturo Cuellar Gallery, Zurich; purchased by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 55.

Bibliography

1965

  • Aschenbrenner, Wanda, and Gregor Schweighofer. Paul Troger, Leben und Werk. Salzburg, 1965.

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper left in chalk: No. 8.; by later hand (?), lower right in brown ink: Paul Troger; by later hand, lower right verso: 6

Watermarks

three descending crescents with fragments of countermark, Heawood 868 (Venice 1646)

Wikidata ID

Q64619145

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