Tobit Burying the Dead, c. 1650/1660

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over traces of black chalk on laid paper, laid down on old album mount

Dimensions

sheet: 29 × 42.5 cm (11 7/16 × 16 3/4 in.)

framed: 54.61 × 67.31 cm (21 1/2 × 26 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Andrea Woodner

Accession Number

2019.84.1

Artists / Makers

Domenico Piola (artist) Italian, Genoese, 1628 - 1703

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, in pen and brown ink at lower right, Sebastien Bourdon; by later hand, right center verso in brown ink: BS 396 / No. 31 1 [not deciphered]

Provenance

(sale, Christie's, Paris, 25 March 2015, no. 104, as attr. to Paolo Gerolamo Piola, "Une Scène de peste"); (Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd, London); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

Private Collection c/o Emmanuel Marty de Cambiare

Exhibition History

2019: Dessins Génois/Genoese Drawings. Marty de Cambiaire, Paris, 2019, 44, 86-87, 101, no. 16

2020: A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2020, no. 75 (shown only in Washington, Washington venue canceled).

Bibliography

2020: Bober, Jonathan. A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750,Exh cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington: 242, no. 75.