Monument to King George I

1732

Domenico Maria Fratta

Artist, Italian, 1696 - 1763

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk, heightened with white on prepared paper; partially pricked for transfer

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation

  • Dimensions

    overall: 62.4 x 44.7 cm (24 9/16 x 17 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.128.16

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Collector's mark EZ; (possibly sale, Paris, 6 December 1943, Vente X (see Bénézit)); Christian Humann; The Christian Humann Foundation, Paris, 1981; gift to NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1999

  • La pittura emiliana nel Veneto, Banca popolare di Verona, 1999: 186, no. 17.

  • Van Houtven, Andrea. "Two Drawings by Domenico Maria Fratta for McSwiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes.'" Master Drawings, 37, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 47, 51-52, and note 1, fig. 3.

Inscriptions

lower left in pen and brown ink: Domenico Ma. Fratta Bon. fece 1732; by later hand, center verso in graphite: N-2

Watermarks

fleur-de-lis crowned

Wikidata ID

Q64541074

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