A Ceiling with Apollo Presiding over Military and Historical Learning
1740s
Anton Kern
Artist, Bohemian, 1709 - 1747
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor, pen and gray ink over traces of black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
Diane Allen Nixon and Ailsa Mellon Bruce and Professor William B. O'Neal Funds
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Dimensions
overall: 34.1 x 44.4 cm (13 7/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
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Accession Number
2005.80.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd., London); purchased 2005 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2007
Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007
2023
Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.
Bibliography
2004
Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd. Old Master Drawings. London, 2004: no. 18 (as South German School).
Wikidata ID
Q64536248