Fantastic Landscape with a Man Sleeping on a Rock
1650s
Artist, Genoese, 1629 - 1657

Artwork overview
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Medium
red chalk, heightened with white gouache on light tan laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 34.8 × 27.2 cm (13 11/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
mount: 41.1 × 33.4 cm (16 3/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
framed: 62.23 × 46.99 cm (24 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2018.165.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Christie's, London, 16 April 1991, no. 145); private collection, Milan; (Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2018 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2020
A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2020 (shown only in Washington, Washington venue canceled).
Bibliography
2019
Bober, Jonathan. "Genoese Baroque Drawings." National Gallery of Art Bulletin, No. 60(Spring, 2019): 28, 29 (color).