Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

1720/1724

Paolo Gerolamo Piola

Artist, Italian, 1666 - 1724

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash and black chalk, heightened with white gouache on gray-blue laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Andrea Woodner

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 34.6 × 49.2 cm (13 5/8 × 19 3/8 in.)
    mount: 42.5 × 29 cm (16 3/4 × 11 7/16 in.)
    framed: 56.52 × 66.68 cm (22 1/4 × 26 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.83.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection; (via Marty de Cambiaire, Paris); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • Dessins Génois/Genoese Drawings. Marty de Cambiaire, Paris, 2019, 52-53, 87, 103, no. 19

2020

  • A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2020, no. 112 (shown only in Washington, Washington venue canceled).

Bibliography

2020

  • Bober, Jonathan. A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750,Exh cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington: 316, no. 112.

Watermarks

fleur de lys?

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