Fantastic Landscape with a Man Sleeping on a Rock

1650s

Bartolomeo Biscaino

Associated Names
Bartolomeo Biscaino

Artist, Genoese, 1629 - 1657

The image shows a landscape with a broad perspective. The horizon is in the upper third of the image, blending sky with distant rocky terrain. Delicate lines sweep across the surface, suggesting lush foliage and rolling hills. The style uses soft brushstrokes, pencil lines, and white highlighting for texture and depth. The palette includes warm tones like ochre, sienna, and white. A rock formation, bushes, and a figure are close by. In the distance, a river winds between stones and trees towards a figure with an animal. White highlights accentuate the path and water.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk, heightened with white gouache on light tan laid paper

  • Credit Line

    New Century Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 34.8 × 27.2 cm (13 11/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
    mount: 41.1 × 33.4 cm (16 3/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
    framed: 62.23 × 46.99 cm (24 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.165.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie's, London, 16 April 1991, no. 145); private collection, Milan; (Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2020

  • A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2020 (shown only in Washington, Washington venue canceled).

Bibliography

2019

  • Bober, Jonathan. "Genoese Baroque Drawings." National Gallery of Art Bulletin, No. 60(Spring, 2019): 28, 29 (color).

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