Interior of a Barn Built on Ancient Ruins

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown chalk over graphite on wove paper, incised for transfer

Dimensions

overall: 30.3 x 43.8 cm (11 15/16 x 17 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1997.75.1

Artists / Makers

Michele Canzio (artist) Genoese, 1787 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand?, lower center in graphite: M. Canzio; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: disegno originale di / Antonio Basoli; by later hand, center verso in red crayon: N. 64

Provenance

(Lodewijk Houthakker, Amsterdam [Lugt undesc]); purchased by NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Houthakker, Bernard, Mr.

Exhibition History

1976: De achtergrond belicht. Ontwerpen voor het theater 1580-1850, Noordbrabants Museum, s'Hertogenbosch; and Toneelmuseum, Amsterdam, 1976, no. 80.

Bibliography

1989: Fuhring, Peter. Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornaments, The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection. London, 1989: no. 956.