The Triumph of Galatea

c. 1535

Girolamo da Treviso II

Artist, Italian, 1497 - 1544

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash, heightened with white, over black chalk

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 41.1 × 27.7 cm (16 3/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1973.46.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Yvonne Tan Bunzl Gallery, London; NGA purchase in 1973

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 21 (under artist's variant name, Girolamo da Treviso the Younger).

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 18.

Bibliography

1974

  • Recent Acquistiions and Promised Gifts: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974: 58-60.

2001

  • Disegni del Rinascimento in Valpadana. Exh. cat. Gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi (no. 87), Florence, 2001: 408.

2002

  • Pattanaro, Alessandra. "Anna D'Este Eridani Nimpha: Sulle Tracce di un Ritratto Perduto di Girolamo da Carpa." Il Ritratto Nell'Europa del Cinquecento. Firenze, 2002: no. 5.

2007

  • Cordellier, Dominique. "Aspetti del disegno dei fratelli Dossi..." In Il Camerino delle Pitture di Alfonso I, vol. 6. Edited by Alessandro Ballarin. Bertoncello, Padua, 2007: 45-46.

Watermarks

eagle in a circle, a better form of Briquet 202 (Florence 1472, Rome 1471, Venice 1475)

Wikidata ID

Q64572442


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