Saint Paul Preaching in Athens

1734

Giovanni Paolo Panini

Artist, Roman, 1691 - 1765

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black and gray ink with gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on tan prepared paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 41.3 x 27.7 cm (16 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2010.93.21

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; bequest to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

  • Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle. The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1991, no. 58 (cat. by Frederick A. den Broeder).

2012

  • The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 80-81, no. 29 (entry by Oliver Tostmann).

Bibliography

1994

  • Harris, Ann Sutherland. Review of Frederick A. den Broeder, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle. Master Drawings 32, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 68.

Inscriptions

signed and dated by artist, lower right in pen and black ink: I.P.P. / 1734; by artist, center right on the altar within drawing: IGNOTO / DEO; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 2129N

Watermarks

Strasbourg lily with a double-pointed arrow below [similar to Churchill 406]

Wikidata ID

Q64572440

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