A Boy with a Lute
c. 1740
Artist, Italian, 1683 - 1754

Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk and charcoal, heightened with white chalk on (faded) blue laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 36.3 x 29.5 cm (14 5/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
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Accession
1979.40.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Alfred Beurdeley (Lugt 421); N. Chaikin; Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm Bick
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1971
Italian Drawings from the Bick Collection, Dartmouth College, no. 38
1983
Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1983.
1995
Splendori del Settecento Veneziano, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1995, 414, no. 129 (repro. p. 414)(entry by Annalisa Prissa Torrini).
1997
Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 52.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 59.
Bibliography
1983
Knox 1983, 41.
2012
Percival, Melissa. Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure. Vermont, Ashgate (2012): 68, no. 2.16
Wikidata ID
Q64572332