An Ornate Ceiling with an Allegory of Spring, 1790/1815

Not on View

pen and black ink with watercolor over graphite on faintly blued-green laid paper

overall: 47.7 × 34.7 cm (18 3/4 × 13 11/16 in.)

1993.13.2

Giacomo Quarenghi (artist) Venetian, 1744 - 1817

by later hand, lower right in graphite: 24.; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 20006269/2

(sale New York, Sotheby's, "Old Master Drawings," January 13, 1993 [lot number 59]); Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd, London, 1993; purchased 1993, by NGA

Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd.
Sotheby's

1994: Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 122.

2023: Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.