The Return of the Spies from the Promised Land
c. 1666
Artist, Italian, 1612 - 1666

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper, laid down on an old album sheet
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 15.2 × 26 cm (6 × 10 1/4 in.)
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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.