A Flying Angel

1580/1590

Jacopo Palma il Giovane

Artist, Venetian, 1544 or 1548 - 1628

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink, heightened with white, over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 27.4 x 17.4 cm (10 13/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1978.26.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

From the so-called Borghese Album; Collection of an unidentified gentleman (sale, London, Sotheby and Co., 1 July 1971, no. 21); (H. Shickman Gallery, New York); purchased by NGA, 1978.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

2018

  • Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019, no. 75.

Inscriptions

on verso in pen: G.P.no: 76; cut from old mount and attached to recto of present mount: G.P. no.315.

Wikidata ID

Q64580063

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