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attributed to El Greco

Pietà, c. 1570

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Medium

pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 24.4 × 16.6 cm (9 5/8 × 6 9/16 in.)
mount: 29.5 × 22.8 cm (11 5/8 × 9 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of David H. McDonnell

Accession Number

2016.54.1

Artists / Makers

El Greco (artist) Greek, 1541 - 1614

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand in graphite, lower right verso of mount: 121 / 474

Provenance

Private collection; (sale, Sotheby's London, 8 July 2015, no. 28); David McDonnell, Arlington; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

McDonnell, David H.

Exhibition History

2018: Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019, no. 64.

Bibliography

2007: Turner, Nicholas. "A Proposal for El Greco as a Draftsman" Master Drawings 45, 299 and 301, fig. 14.

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