Saint Paul Preaching

Agostino Carracci

Artist, Bolognese, 1557 - 1602

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 32.1 x 23.6 cm (12 5/8 x 9 5/16 in.)
    overall (tipped into album page): 48.9 x 38.4 cm (19 1/4 x 15 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1988.3.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

From an album said to have belonged to King Philip V of Spain, which was dismembered and sold at Sotheby's, London, 22 November 1966, no. 116, as Salvator Rosa; purchased by Fox; private collection (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 13 January 1988, no. 70, as Bolognese School, 17th century); David Tunick, Inc., New York, for NGA, purchase in 1988.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1988

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

Inscriptions

by later hand on album page, upper center in brown ink: 47.-

Watermarks

Fleur-de-lis in circle, crown with star

Wikidata ID

Q64536760

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