Monks Buying Fish before the Portal of the Madonna della Misericordia

1855

Ludwig Johann Passini

Artist, German, 1832 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper, touched with gum arabic

  • Credit Line

    Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 46.5 × 33 cm (18 5/16 × 13 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.148.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Franz von Brentano [1838-1917], Wurzberg and Vienna, acquired from the artist in the 1850s/1860s (dealer notes); (Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Munich); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 88.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 129.

Inscriptions

lower right verso in red: Ludio. Passini Venedig 1855.; by later hand, lower center verso in black chalk: L. Passini; inscribed in pen and brown ink on wall "CORTE VECCHIA"

Wikidata ID

Q64594339

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