Architectural Fantasy of a Magnificent Ancient Mausoleum

1815/1820

Giuseppe Borsato

Artist, Italian, 1770 - 1849

Alessandro Sanquirico

Artist, Italian, 1780 - 1849

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and gray ink over graphite, with gray and black wash and watercolor on thin wove paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 40.9 × 56 cm (16 1/8 × 22 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2004.27.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Didier Aaron, Paris; (Daxer & Marschall, Munich); purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 95.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 125.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in graphite: No 51

Wikidata ID

Q64572486

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