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Sebastiano del Piombo

A Prophet Addressed by an Angel, 1517/1519

Not on View

Medium

black chalk with gray and brown wash above four stylus arcs at bottom right, heightened with white and squared with red chalk on blue paper, laid down on late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century mount

Dimensions

overall: 32 × 25 cm (12 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith

Accession Number

1985.40.1

Artists / Makers

Sebastiano del Piombo (artist) Venetian, 1485 - 1547

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Inscription

inscribed on mount verso in 19th-century graphite: “San.Matteo/Pellegrino Tibaldi” and “No 1235”

Provenance

Guillaume Hubert [d. 1760] (Lugt 1160), Paris; Thomas Hudson [1701-1779] (Lugt 2432), London; (sale, Langford, 17 March 1779, part of no. 44, as Pellegrino Tibaldi); William Roscoe (sale, Thomas Winstanley, Liverpool, 23-29 September 1816, no. 348, as Pellegrino Tibaldi). Private collection (sale, London, Christie's, 5 April 1977, no. 43); purchased by David Tunick Gallery, New York; Robert and Clarice Smith, Bethesda, Maryland; given to NGA in 1985.

Associated Names

Hubert, Guillaume
Hudson, Thomas
Smith, Robert H., Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 36-37.

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

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

1999: "Roma e lo stile classico di Raffaello 1515-1527", Akademiehof, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, 1999, no. 175.

2003: Disegno Veneto, The Moravian Gallery Brno, Czeck Republic, no. 2

2008: Sebastiano del Piombo, 1485-1547. Palazzo di Venezia, Rome; Kulturforum, Berlin, 2008, no. 73 (entry by Paul Joannides).

2009: Sebastiano del Piombo e la Cappella Borgherini nel Contesto dello Pittura Rinascimentale, Real Academia de Espana en Roma, Rome, May 13-14 2009

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 14.

2017: Michelangelo Diving Draftsman and Designer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2017.

2017: Michelangelo & Sebastiano, The National Gallery, London, 2017.

Bibliography

1980: Lucco, Mauro. L'Opera completa di Sebastiano del Piombo. Milan, 1980: 109, fig. 50(2).

1981: Hirst, Michael. Sebastiano del Piombo. Oxford, 1981: 57, pl.82.

1991: Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 294, color repro.

1998: "National Gallery of Art Library" informational brochure. Washington, 1998: cover, [3], color repros.

1999: Roma e lo stile classico di Raffaello. Exh. cat. Mantua and Vienna, 1999: 249.

2003: Disegno veneto. Moravska galerie, Brno, 2003: 12-13, 162-163.

2008: Carratu, Tullia, Sebastiano del Piombo a Roma 1511-1547. Milan: Federico Motta Editore (2008): 35.

2008: Sebastiano del Piombo 1485-1547. Exh. cat. Palazzo di Venezia, Rome; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Milan, 2008: 268-269.