A Salver and an Openwork Base, 1755/1760

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk and graphite on laid paper, laid down on an album sheet

Dimensions

sheet: 35.6 × 25.7 cm (14 × 10 1/8 in.)
mount: 45.6 × 33.6 cm (17 15/16 × 13 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

2016.68.2

Artists / Makers

Luigi Valadier (artist) Italian, 1726 - 1785

Image Use

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Provenance

Valadier workshop until 1817; Giuseppe Spagna and his son Pietro Paolo, who took over the Valadier workshop and apparently gathered drawings from the Valadiers and their workshop in albums; the album containing this drawing purchased by a private collector, traveling in Italy toward the end of the 19th century; by descent; (Artemis Group, London); Trinity Fine Art, Ltd., London; John Winter, London; (his sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 December 2015, no. 127); (via Trinity Fine Art, Ltd); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Trinity Fine Art Ltd.

Exhibition History

1991: Valadier: Three Generations of Roman Goldsmiths, an Exhibition of Drawings and Works of Art. Artemis Group at David Carritt, Ltd., London, 1991, no. 14 (album no. 42b).

1997: L'oro di Valadier: Un genio nella Roma del Settecento. Villa Medici, Rome, no. 64 (entry by Eleanor Thompson and John Winter).

2011: The Drawings of Luigi Valadier (1726-1785). Trinity Fine Art at the Salon du Dessin, Palais de La Bourse, Paris, 2011, no. 13 (color)(entry by John Winter).

Bibliography

1993: González-Palacios, Alvar. Il gusto dei principi: arte di corte del XVIIe e del XVIII secolo. Milan, 1993, I: 207; II: 212, fig. 407.