Elaborate Wall Decorations with Venus and Adonis
c. 1800
Tommaso Bigatti
Artist, Italian, active c. 1800
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gouache over traces of graphite on "swan skin" (fine mammalian parchment made to appear avian)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 31.7 × 45.6 cm (12 1/2 × 17 15/16 in.)
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Accession
2017.126.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
An "aristocratic family," Sicily; (their sale, Christie's, London, 10 December 2015, no. 24); David H. McDonnell, Arlington, VA; gift to NGA, 2017.
Associated Names
Wikidata ID
Q64633334