Noah Leading the Animals into the Ark, 1774

Not on View

black chalk and brown wash with white gouache on light brown laid paper (originally blue); laid down

overall: 41.9 x 55.6 cm (16 1/2 x 21 7/8 in.)

2007.80.1

François-André Vincent (artist) French, 1746 - 1816

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (artist after) Italian, 1609 - 1664

signed and dated in brown ink at lower left: Vincent R. 1774 [words scratched out]; signed again at later date in brown in at lower right: Vincent

(sale, Christie's London, 3 July 2007); (via Hazlitt, Gooden, & Fox, London); purchased 2007 by NGA.

Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd.

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 65.

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 226-227, 289, no. 98 (color).

2012: The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2012 (no cat.).