Spectators Amazed

early 1540s

Battista Franco

Associated Names
Battista Franco

Artist, Venetian, probably 1498 - 1561

The image shows multiple figures in various poses, with details such as clothing folds and hair differences. The figures are placed against a plain background, with a sense of movement or instruction implied by their positions.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink over red, and black chalk on laid paper (laid on late eighteenth-century mount)

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • 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 Number

    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.

2018

  • Marciari, John.Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice. Exh. cat. Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018-2019.

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

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