The Marriage of Europe and China

c. 1760

Pietro Antonio Novelli

Artist, Venetian, 1729 - 1804

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink and pen and black ink, with gray wash over black chalk

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 33.7 x 45.7 cm (13 1/4 x 18 in.)

  • Accession

    1987.16.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Naudet (Lugt 1937, dated 1810); Yvonne tan Bunzl Gallery, London, 1987.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 357, 359, 471, no. 252 (repro. p. 359, color)(entry by Andrew Robison).

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 104.

Bibliography

1994

  • The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: 357, 359, 471, no. 252.

Inscriptions

in unknown hand, lower center in graphite: Le Mariage. verso: pen and brown ink, "a paris Chez Naudet Md Des... au Louvre/1810"

Markings

ilar to Heawood 687)

Watermarks

large assymetrical crowned shield containing three siz-pointed stars (similar to part of Heawood 824, Venice 1784, but better formed and without crescent)

Wikidata ID

Q64619664

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