Spectators Amazed
early 1540s
Artist, Venetian, probably 1498 - 1561

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink over red, and black chalk on laid paper (laid on late eighteenth-century mount)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
Overall (approximate): 18.5 x 16.6 cm (7 5/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
support: 28.3 x 26.3 cm (11 1/8 x 10 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1976.18.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Richard Day, Ltd., London); NGA purchase in 1976.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1988
Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 19.
2018
Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018-2019, not in cat.
Bibliography
1994
Baudille, Rita Parma. "Disegni di Battista Franco per incisioni," Arte Documento 8 (1994): 93-94, 100 (note 25), repr. 89, fig. 2.
Inscriptions
in later hand, lower center of old mount in brown ink: Baptista Franco; lower right: No.10; across bottom verso in graphite: Gio.(?) Batista della Marco
Wikidata ID
Q64537165