The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine
1761
Artist, French, 1732 - 1806
Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk over a black chalk counterproof on laid paper with brown ink borderline
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Credit Line
Gift of Donald Stone in honor of Louis and Matthieu de Bayser
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Dimensions
sheet: 28.2 × 20.2 cm (11 1/8 × 7 15/16 in.)
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Accession
2022.40.39
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Jacques Dupont, Paris. (Galerie de Bayser, Paris); purchased 2013 by Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.
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, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1963
Ananoff, Alexandre. "L'Oeuvre Dessine de Jean-Honore Fragonard 1732-1806: Tome III._ (Paris: 1963): 180, no. 1812.
Inscriptions
lower left in black chalk: Paul Veronese Eglise de S.te Catherine / Venise