Three Herms

c. 1630s

Giovanni Mauro della Rovere

Artist, Milanese, 1575 - 1640

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray wash and white heightening over black chalk on gray laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Julius S. Held Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 28.9 x 29.5 cm (11 3/8 x 11 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.1.50

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Julius S. Held [1905-2002], by 1970; gift 1985 to NGA.

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. 101, as German School, 18th Century.

1979

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of Ingrid and Julius S. Held, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; traveling exhibition, 1979, no. 8.

Bibliography

2024

  • Bober, Jonathan. "Seventeenth-century Milanese drawings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and some associated collections."Arte Lombarda 200-201, no. 1-2 (2024): 82, fig. 13.

Inscriptions

lower left verso in pen and brown ink: H.B.; upper right verso in graphite:della Rovere / (Gere)

Wikidata ID

Q64572437

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