Aurora's Tryst with Time Interrupted

c. 1700

Giuseppe Passeri

Artist, Italian, 1654 - 1714

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown and red wash, red and black chalk, heightened with white gouache on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 23.6 x 18.4 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.185


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly Hartwell Delagarde Grissell (sale, 28 May 1925, lot 18, "Giovanni Passeri, Allegory of Time, red chalk and brush, 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in."). (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, by 1961). Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1961

  • Exhibition of Old Master Drawings. P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 1961, no. 67.

2012

  • The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 70-71, no. 24 (entry by Carolina Mangone).

Bibliography

1976

  • Clifford, Timothy. "Another Clock Painted by Baciccio?" Burlington Magazine 118, no. 885 (December 1976): 852 note 4.

Inscriptions

by unknown hand on mount, center verso in graphite: Giuseppe PASSERI / Aurora

Wikidata ID

Q64572500


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