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Giuseppe Borsato

Architectural Fantasy of a Magnificent Ancient Mausoleum, 1815/1820

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Medium

pen and gray ink over graphite, with gray and black wash and watercolor on thin wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 40.9 × 56 cm (16 1/8 × 22 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

2004.27.1

Artists / Makers

Giuseppe Borsato (artist) Italian, 1770 - 1849

Alessandro Sanquirico (artist) Italian, 1780 - 1849

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right in graphite: No 51

Provenance

Didier Aaron, Paris; (Daxer & Marschall, Munich); purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

Daxer and Marschall Kunsthandels, GmbH

Exhibition History

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 95.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 125.

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