The Spies Returning from Canaan

1690s(?)

Giacinto Calandrucci

Artist, Italian, 1646 - 1707

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with blue wash over black chalk, squared for transfer with red chalk, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 58.7 × 33.3 cm (23 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.) (arched top)

  • Accession

    2015.87.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792) (Lugt 2364). (Adolphe Stein, Paris, by 1986). (sale, Christie's London, 3 July 1990, no. 44, as "Circle of Carlo Maratta"). (sale, Christie' s London, 2 July 1996, no. 146, as "Circle of Giacinto Calandrucci"). (sale, F. Tajan, Paris, 30 March 2011, no. 31). (Galerie Tarantino, Paris); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • Master Drawings Presented by Adolphe Stein. Douwes Fine Art Gallery, London, 1986, no. 39, pl. 28 (as Carlo Maratta).

2014

  • Les Fastes du Pouvoir: Dessins et estampes du XVIe au XVIIIe siecle, Galerie Tarantino, Paris, 2014, no. 33.

Inscriptions

lower left in black chalk: Do Fetti; lower center in black chalk: Do Fetti

Watermarks

three circles with an A, an anchor, and griffons flanking a cross

Wikidata ID

Q64572097


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