Two Actors Peeking through a Theater Curtain while Others Prepare the Footlights

Not on View

Medium

pen and gray ink with gray wash on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 25.9 x 36.9 cm (10 3/16 x 14 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2004.157.1

Artists / Makers

Johann Esaias Nilson (artist) German, 1721 - 1788

Image Use

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Inscription

Inscribed across the bottom in pen and ink: OPERE ITALIANE RAPRESENTATE IN AUGUSTA,/disegnati da Giouanni Esaia Nilson:Pittore. Dated in the central cartouche: 1746/1747

Provenance

Private collection, France. (Galerie Sabrina Förster, Düsseldorf); NGA purchase in 2004.

Associated Names

Galerie Sabrina Forster

Exhibition History

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 68.

2010: German Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1580-1900, NGA, 2010-2011.

2022: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2022-2023.

Bibliography

2004: Galerie Sabrina Förster. Meisterzeichnungen 17.-19. Jahrhundert. Düsseldorf, 2004: no. 8.