Abbot Antonio Niccolini, c. 1725

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Medium

pen and iron gall ink over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 30.6 x 21.8 cm (12 1/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
mount: 36.8 x 27.7 cm (14 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.126

Artists / Makers

Pier Leone Ghezzi (artist) Roman, 1674 - 1755

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left verso in pen and brown ink: Mr. L'Ab. Nicolini

Provenance

From an album acquired by Richard Neville Neville [1717-1793] in Paris in 1763; inherited in 1793 by Richard Aldworth Griffin-Neville, 2nd Baron Braybrooke; by descent to Robin Henry Charles Neville, 10th Lord Braybrooke (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 10 December 1979, no. 87). 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, 78-79, no. 28 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli).