Two Sibyls and an Angel

c. 1520s

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia

Artist, Italian, active c. 1490 - 1525 or after

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Accession

    2019.63.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 1948, under no. 29 (as "certainly engraved by another hand")

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Antiquarius srl, Rome); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1948

  • Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948: under no. 29, as "certainly engraved by another hand"

1980

  • Illus. Bartsch 1980 (under Giovanni da Brescia): no. 16

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower rigth verso in graphite: Sculoa de M. Raimondi / Teologia e metafisica / (da Raffaello o Giulio Romano) / B. XV. 49.6; C/VIII/V.6; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: B. XV/49/6 / Raimondi Anonymous / Part of a fresco i / S Maria della Pace; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Sibilla / Raffaello; by later hand, lower left verso in red chalk: 105; traces of a graphite inscription

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