a) Study of a Man Kneeling, Looking Upward (recto); b) Studies of the Same Figure (verso)

c. 1733

Francesco Fontebasso

Artist, Venetian, 1709 - 1769

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    a) pen and brown ink on laid paper b) pen and brown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Funds from Robert B. Loper

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 20.9 × 13.3 cm (8 1/4 × 5 1/4 in.)
    mount: 26.8 × 19.4 cm (10 9/16 × 7 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2022.51.1.a-b

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie’s, Paris, 26 June 2002, no. 54); private collection; (sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 26 January 2022, lot 27); (C.G. Boerner, New York); purchased by NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

a) by later hand, lower right of mount in graphite: 5
b) by later hand, upper verso in graphite: 49 S. Ricci

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