The Assumption of the Virgin, c. 1785

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with golden brown wash over graphite

Dimensions

overall: 54.6 × 18.9 cm (21 1/2 × 7 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1984.3.63

Artists / Makers

Giambattista Canal (artist) Italian, 1745 - 1825

Image Use

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Inscription

insrcibed in pen and brown ink, apparently by th artist, in the right margin "No 4 [changed from 3] ;a icoronasion/della madonna/N qualo val' L/No 28 [changed from 33]" and in the left margin "No. 32"; in another hand "f2/00"

Provenance

Dr. Ludwig Pollak [1868-1943] (Lugt 788b), Rome; Julius S. Held [1905-2002], Old Bennington, VT; purchased by NGA, 1984.

Associated Names

Held, Julius S., Professor

Exhibition History

1970: Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held, University Art Gallery, Binghamton; traveling exhibition, 1970, no. 133 (as Bartolomeo Tarsia).

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 112.

Bibliography

1970: Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held. Exh. cat. University Art Gallery, Binghamton, 1970: 26.

1974: Pignatti, Terisio. Venetian Drawings from American Collections. Washington, 1974: 29, 52 (as Bartolomeo Tarsia).

2009: Piai, Andrea. "Nuovi bozzetti e disegni attribuiti a Fabio e Giambattista Canal." Bulletin de l'association des historiens de l'Art italien 14 (2008), Paris, 2009: 134, fig. 12.