Elegant Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace
Artist, Venetian, 1709 - 1769

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink on light brown laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 22 x 17.1 cm (8 11/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
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Accession
1994.60.17
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Unidentified collector (stamp, Lugt undescribed); (Kate de Rothschild, London); Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington, 1985; bequest to NGA, 1994.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1994
A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 39.
Bibliography
1994
A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 39.
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower left in brown ink: Fontebasso; by later hand, lower left verso in brown ink: Fontebasso; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 113
Wikidata ID
Q64562374