The Assumption of the Virgin

c. 1785

Giambattista Canal

Artist, Italian, 1745 - 1825

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Ludwig Pollak [1868-1943] (Lugt 788b), Rome; Julius S. Held [1905-2002], Old Bennington, VT; purchased by NGA, 1984.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1970

  • Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held, University Art Gallery, Binghamton; traveling exhibition, 1970, no. 133 (as Bartolomeo Tarsia).

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 112.

Bibliography

1970

  • Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held. Exh. cat. University Art Gallery, Binghamton, 1970: 26.

1974

  • Pignatti, Terisio. _ Venetian Drawings from American Collections_. Washington, 1974: 29, 52 (as Bartolomeo Tarsia).

2009

  • Piai, Andrea. "Nuovi bozzetti e disegni attribuiti a Fabio e Giambattista Canal." Bulletin de l'association des historiens de l'Art italien 14 (2008), Paris, 2009: 134, fig. 12.

Inscriptions

insrcibed in pen and brown ink, apparently by th artist, in the right margin "No 4 [changed from 3] ;a icoronasion/della madonna/N qualo val' L/No 28 [changed from 33]" and in the left margin "No. 32"; in another hand "f2/00"

Watermarks

crowned shield with a fleur-de-lys (similar to Heawood 1824-1861 but without makers initials, French paper made for export throughout middle and late eighteenth century)

Wikidata ID

Q64572216

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