Design for a Stage Curtain: The Interior of an Elaborate Temple Dedicated to Illustrious Men

1780s?

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot

Artist, French, 1727 - 1801

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and gray ink with gray and gray-brown wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 37 × 39.8 cm (14 9/16 × 15 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.53.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Phillips, London, 6 July 1994, no. 131, as "Circle of Nicolas Moretty"); Ralph Holland [1917-2012], London; (his sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 July 2013, no. 384 (as "attributed to Eurimond Alexandre Petitot); (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London); purchased 2014 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

  • One Hundred Drawings and Watercolours, dating from the 16th century to the present day. Guy Peppiatt Fine Art and Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, 2013, 8, no. 6 (color).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower verso in graphite: Petitot / Tempio della Gloria eretto alli Uomini Illustri, per servire di Sipario al Pavia

Watermarks

DINO.

Wikidata ID

Q64559520

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