A Design for a Wall Decoration or Fountain

1590s?

Cherubino Alberti

Artist, Roman, 1553 - 1615

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of David H. McDonnell

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 42.9 × 24.5 cm (16 7/8 × 9 5/8 in.)

  • 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


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