Saint John on Patmos, c. 1547

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Medium

pen and black ink with brown wash over black chalk, corrected and heightened with white gouache, with border lines by the artist on laid paper

Dimensions

Overall: 19.6 x 15.3 cm (7 11/16 x 6 in.)
support: 33.2 x 28.7 cm (13 1/16 x 11 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Julius S. Held Collection

Accession Number

1985.1.56

Artists / Makers

Geoffroy Dumoûtier (artist) French, active c. 1535 - 1573

Image Use

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Inscription

later hand lower center on mount in graphite: (attribution given and crossed out), pd 15 florins? / ex coll GU (G Usslaub) and G.Tardieu (Lugt 1541a) / L.1 221; uLv//in brown ink: Ante Dieu ... 15#

Provenance

G. Usslaub (L.1221), J. Tardieu (L.1541 & 1541a). Julius S. Held [1905-2002], by 1970; gift 1985 to NGA.

Associated Names

Held, Julius S., Professor

Exhibition History

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 30-31, 275, no. 6.