Galley under Construction

c. 1625/1626

Teodoro Filippo di Liagno

Associated Names
Teodoro Filippo di Liagno

Artist, Italian, 1589 - 1629

The image shows a large wooden ship under construction. The skeleton of the ship is being built on a structure of supporting posts. Detailed line work illustrates the ship's ribs and framework, and various figures are depicted around the ship, some working and others observing the progress. The drawing uses a monochromatic color scheme with shades of brown and sepia.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk

  • Credit Line

    Julius S. Held Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.2 x 37.1 cm (8 3/4 x 14 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1985.1.26

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chiarini 2007 (as Liagno)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, Paris [1680 - 1765] (Lugt 295, without paraphe).[1] Julius S. Held [1905-2002], by 1970; gift 1985 to NGA.
[1] The number in the lower right closely resembles that in a Liagno drawing now in the Louvre (INV 9667), which aslo includes Dezallier d'Argenville's paraphe.The numbers are not sequential, possibly a reflection of this drawing's earlier attribution to Agostino Tassi as noted in old inscriptions.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1970

  • Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held, University Art Gallery, Binghamton; traveling exhibition, 1970, no. 114.

1984

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., January 1984.

Bibliography

1972

  • Chiarini, Marco. "Filippo Napoletano, Poelenburgh e la nascita del paesaggio realistico in Italia." Paragone 269 (1972): 34, note 5.

1993

  • Paliaga, F. "Per la storia della pittura di marine in Toscana nel Seicento: aggiornamenti a Pietro Ciafferi." Antichità viva 2 (1993): 23, note 31.

2006

  • Carofano, Pierluigi, Franco Canepa, and Franco Paliaga.Fantastiche vedute : la pittura di capriccio in Toscana dal Ciafferi ai Poli. Pacini, 2006: no. 8 (listed under Ciafferi but attributed to Napoletano).

2007

  • Chiarini, Marco. Teodoro Filippo di Liagno detto Filippo Napoletano, 1589-1629: Vite e opere. Florence: Centro Di, 2007, no. 375.

Inscriptions

lower right in black ink: 217; lower left verso in graphite: A. Tassi324; lower center verso in graphite: A.Tassi

Wikidata ID

Q64536903

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