A Baldachin with a Painting of the Annunciation

c. 1708 or later

Andrea Pozzo

Artist, Italian, 1642 - 1709

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink over graphite on two jointed sheets of laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 41.4 x 21.2 cm (16 5/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.194

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 82-83, no. 30 (entry by Andrew Robison).

Inscriptions

by artist, upper left in graphite (barely visible): --- un angelo si vol[?]; by artist, upper left in the same brown ink as the drawing: per ordine composito; by artist, upper right in the same ink: una croce / ligna; and below that: il padre eterno / sta nel mezzo / del arco; by artist, lower right in the same ink: invention del fra A Pozzo / fatto a Vienna

Wikidata ID

Q64540036

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