Ceiling Design with Personifications of Chastity, Patience, and Humility
early 18th century
Artist, Sienese, 1657 - 1736
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with gray wash and traces of black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
Purchased as the Gift of Warren and Claire Cox and the Joseph F. McCrindle Endowment Fund
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Dimensions
sheet: 40.4 × 24 cm (15 7/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
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Accession
2022.64.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Robert Klein). (Yvonne tan Bunzl, London). (sale, Casa d'aste Pitti, Florence, date unknown, no. 15). (sale, Il Ponte Casa d'Aste Srl, Milan, 18 April 10`8, no. 588); (Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2021 by NGA.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 126; [not deciphered] Nasini / Castel del [not deciphered] - 1736; 15; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: NASINI