Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink and wash on blue laid paper; laid down
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
Overall: 29.7 x 14.8 cm (11 11/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
support: 38 x 23.9 cm (14 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1990.57.7
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Professor William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA, vy 1973; gift 1990 to the National Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1967
"XVI, XVII, XVIII, & XIX Master Drawings...," Bianchini Gallery, NY, 1967, no. 36 (reprod.), as Giorgio Vasari.
1973
Master Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, Walter Cecil Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA and tour, 1973-1975 (as Vasari)
Bibliography
1971
Catherine Monberg-Goguel. Il manierisimo fiorentino. Milan: 1971, pp. 16-17, 85, pl. XXV.
1974
Cecchi, Alessandro. "Qualche contributo al corpus grafico del Vasari e del suo ambiente." Il Vasari Storiografo e Artista (Atti del Congresso internazionale nel IV Centario della Morte, Florence, 1974), published 1976, pp. 148-49, fig.26.
1975
"Drawings for Theater and Architecture: A Special View of a Noted Virginia Collection of Master Drawings," Arts in Virginia, 15 (Spring 1975), 2, 9 (illus.).
Master Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, Virginia Museum Downtown Gallery, Richmond, 1975, 28.
1976
McTavish, David. "Speculations on Two Drawings Attributed to Giorgio Vasari." Bulletin, The National Gallery of Canada, 28(1976), p. 27, note 30.
1993
NGA O'Neal 1993, page 96.
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower right in pen and black ink: 99
Wikidata ID
Q64578974