Design for a Trompe-l'oeil Ceiling Decoration, c. 1780

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with gray wash and graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 59.8 × 45 cm (23 9/16 × 17 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2016.66.1

Artists / Makers

Pietro de Angelis (artist) Venetian, c. 1730s - 1800 or later

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right in brown ink: [not deciphered] de Angelis Romany Invenit et fecit; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Rect A04 III-08 Priv Youv

Provenance

(sale, Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 26 November 2010, no. 6330). (Marty de Cambiaire, Paris); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Private Collection c/o Emmanuel Marty de Cambiare

Bibliography

n.d.: Marty de Cambiaire, Emmanuel and Laurie. Christmas Catalogue. (Paris, n.d. [2015]): no. 32