River God, c. 1720

Not on View

red chalk heightened on tan oatmeal paper, heightened with white chalk

overall: 44 × 53.7 cm (17 5/16 × 21 1/8 in.)

Aschenbrenner 1965, undescribed

2001.63.2

Paul Troger (artist) Austrian, 1698 - 1762

by later hand, upper left in chalk: No. 8.; by later hand (?), lower right in brown ink: Paul Troger; by later hand, lower right verso: 6

Karl & Faber Munich, 9 June 1999, 71; Arturo Cuellar Gallery, Zurich; purchased by NGA.

Cuéllar, Arturo
Karl & Faber Kunstauktionen GmbH

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 55.

1965: Aschenbrenner, Wanda, and Gregor Schweighofer. Paul Troger, Leben und Werk. Salzburg, 1965.