Diana and Apollo Slaughtering the Children of Niobe
c. 1550
Artist, Italian, c. 1513 - 1583

Artwork overview
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Medium
red chalk, squared with black chalk and indented for transfer, on two joined sheets of laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 36 x 675 cm (14 3/16 x 265 3/4 in.) (irregular)
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Accession
2008.117.3
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Brentano-Birckenstock Collection; (sale, Sotheby's New York, 13 January 1989, no. 111); Jeffrey Horvitz, New York; (sale, Sotheby's New York, 23 January 2008, no. 2, bought in); gift to NGA, 2008.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1991
Italian Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, 1991, no. 8.
Bibliography
2009
Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Three Italian Drawings from the Horvitz Collection." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 41 (2009): 22.
Wikidata ID
Q64619705