Design for a Trompe-l'oeil Ceiling Decoration

c. 1780

Pietro de Angelis

Artist, Venetian, c. 1730s - 1800 or later

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray wash and graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 59.8 × 45 cm (23 9/16 × 17 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2016.66.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 26 November 2010, no. 6330). (Marty de Cambiaire, Paris); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

n.d.

  • Marty de Cambiaire, Emmanuel and Laurie. Christmas Catalogue. (Paris, n.d. [2015]): no. 32

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in brown ink: [not deciphered] de Angelis Romany Invenit et fecit; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Rect A04 III-08 Priv Youv

Wikidata ID

Q64619674

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