The Madonna and Child in Glory with Saints Gregory the Great and Andrew

1734/1735

Antonio Balestra

Artist, Venetian, 1666 - 1740

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (lunette): 46.8 × 22.7 cm (18 7/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1972.49.5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi, Ltd., London); purchased 1972 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 49.

Bibliography

1974

  • Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts: Sculptures, Drawings, Prints. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974: 204.

Inscriptions

lower right in brown ink: Antonio Balestra

Wikidata ID

Q64536267

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