A Palatial Wall Ornamented with Sculptures and Paintings

c. 1570

Andrea Semino

Artist, Genoese, 1526? - 1594

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle

  • Dimensions

    overall: 26.6 x 41.1 cm (10 1/2 x 16 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1994.9.5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lodewijk Houthakker, Amsterdam (hand holding pen or brush, Lugt undescribed); (sale, Christie's, New York, 11 January 1994, no. 7); purchased by NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • Wanden en Plafonds. Tekeningen uit de verzameling Lodewijk Houthakker, Nijmegen and Haarlem, 1985, no. 15.

Bibliography

1989

  • Fuhring, Peter. Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornament: The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection. 2 vols. London, 1989: no. 167 (as "School of Verona, c. 1600").

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 182 (color).

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper left in graphite: Sansovino; by later hand, center left verso in graphite: (not deciphered)

Wikidata ID

Q64535761

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