The Return of the Spies from the Promised Land

c. 1666

Pier Francesco Mola

Artist, Italian, 1612 - 1666

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper, laid down on an old album sheet

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 15.2 × 26 cm (6 × 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2022.40.6


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Benedict Nicholson, London [1914 - 1978]. (sale, Christie's London, 6 December 1993, 30). (Adolphe Stein, Paris). Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1972

  • Italian 17th Century Drawings from English Private Collections, Merchant's Hall, Edinburgh, 1972, no. 81.

Bibliography

1969

  • Cocke, Richard. "A Note on Mola and Poussin" The Burlington Magazine 111 (1969): 716 - 717.

1972

  • Cocke, Richard. "Some Late Drawings by Pier Francesco Mola" Master Drawings 10 (1972): 27 and 30, note 31.


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