A Kneeling Woman with an Incense Burner and a Page Holding a Crown and Scepter
c. 1726
Artist, Bohemian, 1709 - 1747
Anton Kern, after Giovanni Battista Pittoni the younger
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white on laid paper
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Credit Line
Gift of William B. O'Neal, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
overall: 26.8 x 39.8 cm (10 9/16 x 15 11/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1991.150.53
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private Collection (sale London, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 27 March 1979, no. 57 as Pittoni); Spencer Drummond Limited, Hamilton, Bermuda; William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA, April 1980; gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1981
The Grand Tour and Beyond: British Travel Narratives of the Continent, the Middle and Far East, Africa, and the American Colonies, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, February 22-April 20, 1981.
1993
Drawings from the O'Neal Collection. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, 13.
1996
Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, 4 May-16 June, 1996.
Wikidata ID
Q64536251