A Female Figure Seated on an Entablature, Holding a Distaff
c. 1700/1710
Artist, Italian, 1680 - 1744

Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 29.1 × 20.8 cm (11 7/16 × 8 3/16 in.)
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Accession
2019.78.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd, London); purchased 2019 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2019
Dessins Génois/Genoese Drawings. Marty de Cambiaire, Paris, 2019, 68, 107-108, no. 25 (cat. by Laurie Marty de Cambiaire).
2023
Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower right in graphite: Piola; sketch or tracing on verso of draped female figure
Watermarks
unidentified