A Kneeling Woman with an Incense Burner and a Page Holding a Crown and Scepter, c. 1726

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 26.8 x 39.8 cm (10 9/16 x 15 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of William B. O'Neal, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.150.53

Artists / Makers

Anton Kern (artist) Bohemian, 1709 - 1747

Giovanni Battista Pittoni the younger (artist after) Italian, 1687 - 1767

Image Use

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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

Drummond Limited, Spencer
O'Neal, William B., Professor

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.