Illusionistic Ceiling with a Grape Arbor, Figures Poised on Galleries, and a Central Scene of Olympian Gods, c. 1580/1590

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk on brown paper (sheet enlarged at right and bottom by the artist)

Dimensions

overall: 39.7 x 26.6 cm (15 5/8 x 10 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1994.48.1

Artists / Makers

Italian 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

The painter Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, Paris (1767-1824); by descent in the Girodet-Trioson family; Philippe Huart; (Emmanuel Moatti, Paris); purchased by NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, Anne-Louis
Huart, Philippe
Moatti, Emmanuel

Exhibition History

1994: Old Master Drawings, Emmanuel Moatti, Paris and Jack Kilgore & Co., Inc., New York, 1994, no. 12 (as attributed to Toussaint Dubreuil).

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