Saturn Wrestling with a Snake

1800s

Tommaso Minardi

Artist, Italian, 1787 - 1871

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black and gray inks with wash over chalk on heavy laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 27.1 x 21.9 cm (10 11/16 x 8 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2008.117.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thomas Le Claire Kunsthandel, Hamburg; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Beverly Farms, MA, 2001; (his sale, Sotheby's, New York, 23 January 2008, no. 100 [unsold]); gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800- 1925, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015.

Inscriptions

by later hand, center verso in graphite: Giuseppe Cades; by later hand, verso in brown ink: 333

Wikidata ID

Q64633337

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