Landscape with Figures by an Estuary with Sailing Boats
c. 1590/1595
Artist, Bolognese, 1560 - 1609
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper; laid down
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
Overall: 11.2 x 18.6 cm (4 7/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
support: 15.4 x 22.7 cm (6 1/16 x 8 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1991.17.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Everard Jabach, Paris (?); Pierre Crozat (according to a letter from Bernadette Py); Sir Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921)(sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1921, no. 77); purchased by Archibald George B. Russell (born 1879)(Lugt Supp. 2770a)(sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 May 1928, no. 46); (bought by Durlacher, London); John Nicholas Brown, Providence; (David Tunick, New York, 1986); gift to NGA in 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1925
Exhibition of Italian Art of the Seventeenth Century, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1925, no. 55, pl. XLIX.
1935
Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1935, no. 37.
1991
Art for the Nation, Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991, 46-47 (entry by Diane De Grazia).
Bibliography
1923
Borenius, Tancred. "Drawings in the Collection of Mr. Archibald G. B. Russell" The Connoisseur 66, no. 261, 1923: 10, pl. VII.
1971
Andrews, Keith. National Gallery of Scotland, Catalogue of Italian Drawings. Cambridge, 1971, 1: 33, under D 852.
1976
Byam Shaw, James. Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford. Oxford, 1976, 1: 249-250, under no. 944.
1984
Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth, sale cat., Christie's, London, 3 July 1984, under no. 9.
1987
Old Master Drawings, sale cat. Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1987, under no. 49.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.46.
1993
Bailey, Stephen Michael, "Carracci Landscape Studies: The Drawings Related to the Recueil de 283 Estampes de Jabach," Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1993; UMI Dissertation Services, 2:591-592, 985, no. 189d (as circle of J. B. Corneille).
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower right in black ink: 17; by later hand on mount, center verso in violet crayon: A. Collections / 2786
Wikidata ID
Q64536073