Signore Sebastiano Conca, Pittore Napoletano (Signore Sebastiano Conca, Neapolitan Painter)
1734/1755
Artist, Roman, 1674 - 1755

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper mounted on album page
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 31.6 x 21.5 cm (12 7/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
support: 48 x 38 cm (18 7/8 x 14 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1975.30.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
From three volumes of caricatures probably executed in Rome at the court of Carlos, King of Naples between 1734 and 1755 who acceded the throne of Spain as Carlos III in 1759; by inheritance to Carlos IV, 1788-1808; Joseph Bonaparte [1768-1844], King of Naples and Spain,1808-1813; Marquis of Wellesley (later Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington), 1814. (Robert M. Light, Santa Barbara); purchased by NGA, 1975.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2000
Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, no. 356, repro.
2018
Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.
Inscriptions
by later hand, across bottom in pen and brown ink: Il Sigre. Bastian Conca Pittore Napoletano [?]issimo il quale in atta dipingere / Sig.re Gio.Battista Conca Pittore Napoletano.
Wikidata ID
Q64619553