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Lorenzo De Ferrari

A Female Figure Seated on an Entablature, Holding a Distaff, c. 1700/1710

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Medium

black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 29.1 × 20.8 cm (11 7/16 × 8 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Robert B. Loper

Accession Number

2019.78.1

Artists / Makers

Lorenzo De Ferrari (artist) Italian, 1680 - 1744

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right in graphite: Piola; sketch or tracing on verso of draped female figure

Provenance

(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, 68, 107-108, no. 25 (cat. by Laurie Marty de Cambiaire).

2023: Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

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