A Baldachin with a Painting of the Annunciation, c. 1708 or later

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink over graphite on two jointed sheets of laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 41.4 x 21.2 cm (16 5/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.194

Artists / Makers

Andrea Pozzo (artist) Italian, 1642 - 1709

Image Use

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Inscription

by artist, upper left in graphite (barely visible): --- un angelo si vol[?]; by artist, upper left in the same brown ink as the drawing: per ordine composito; by artist, upper right in the same ink: una croce / ligna; and below that: il padre eterno / sta nel mezzo / del arco; by artist, lower right in the same ink: invention del fra A Pozzo / fatto a Vienna

Provenance

Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

McCrindle, Joseph F.

Exhibition History

2012: The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 82-83, no. 30 (entry by Andrew Robison).