A Design for a Wall Decoration or Fountain
1590s?
Artist, Roman, 1553 - 1615

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 42.9 × 24.5 cm (16 7/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
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Accession
2018.20.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Michel Gaud [born 1940] Saint-Tropez (Lugt 3482). (sale, Piasa, 26 March 2010, no. 9, as "attributed to Cherubino Alberti"). (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London); David H. McDonnell, Arlington, VA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2014
Master Drawings 2014. Stephen Ongpin Fine Art at Mark Murray Fine Paintings, New York, January 2014, no. 3 (color).
Inscriptions
lower left in brown ink: Cristofano Rosa detto / Dal Vasari / il Bresciano
Wikidata ID
Q64539814