Stage Design of an Ancient Roman Encampment by Night (recto)

c. 1792

Pietro Gonzaga

Artist, Venetian, 1751 - 1831

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with gray wash and black wash over graphite on two joined sheets

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 37.3 × 50.9 cm (14 11/16 × 20 1/16 in.)
    mount: 51.6 × 59 cm (20 5/16 × 23 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.54.1.a

Associated Artworks

Architectural Fantasy on a Round Temple Enclosed with an Ambulatory (verso)

Pietro Gonzaga

1787

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified collector, AR (Lugt 3323); (Unidentified London dealer, c. 1975); private collection, c. 1975; (David and Rachel Blissett, Hampshire, as by Paolo Landriani); purchased 2014 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 120.

Watermarks

" I FE.AE..." (not exactly in Heawood, but cf. 3327, Paris 1787)

Wikidata ID

Q64619690

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