An Elderly Woman in a Striped Shawl

c. 1743

Giuseppe Nogari

Artist, Venetian, 1699 - 1763

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pastel and watercolor on two joined sheets of blue paper, mounted on white paper and on original strainer

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sight size: 51.5 × 40.5 cm (20 1/4 × 15 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.69.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

August Wolff; (sale, Christie's, London, 29 November 1983, no. 80); (sale, Galerie Callieux, Paris, 3 June - 13 July 1984); acquired by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., April 1986.

1994

  • The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 276, 277, 470, no. 179 (repro. 276, color)(entry by Margherita Giacometti).

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 80.

Bibliography

n.d.

  • Neil Jeffares, "Giuseppe Nogarl." Dictionary of pastellists before 1800. London, 2006; online edition [http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/Russell3.pdf], accessed 1 September 2022: no. J.559.112

1984

  • Galerie Cailleux, Paris: 6/5-7/13/84, 51.

2012

  • Percival, Melissa. Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure. Vermont: ashgate (2012): 68-69, no. 2.17

Inscriptions

verso: on mount in early pen and brown ink, not clearly legible

Wikidata ID

Q64572497

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