Diana and Apollo Slaughtering the Children of Niobe, c. 1550

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Medium

red chalk, squared with black chalk and indented for transfer, on two joined sheets of laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 36 x 675 cm (14 3/16 x 265 3/4 in.) (irregular)

Credit Line

Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz

Accession Number

2008.117.3

Artists / Makers

Pirro Ligorio (artist) Italian, c. 1513 - 1583

Image Use

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Provenance

Brentano-Birckenstock Collection; (sale, Sotheby's New York, 13 January 1989, no. 111); Jeffrey Horvitz, New York; (sale, Sotheby's New York, 23 January 2008, no. 2, bought in); gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Brentano-Birckenstock Collection
Horvitz, Jeffrey E.
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

1991: Italian Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, 1991, no. 8.

Bibliography

2009: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Three Italian Drawings from the Horvitz Collection." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 41 (2009): 22.