Aurora's Tryst with Time Interrupted, c. 1700

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown and red wash, red and black chalk, heightened with white gouache on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 23.6 x 18.4 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.185

Artists / Makers

Giuseppe Passeri (artist) Italian, 1654 - 1714

Image Use

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Inscription

by unknown hand on mount, center verso in graphite: Giuseppe PASSERI / Aurora

Provenance

Possibly Hartwell Delagarde Grissell (sale, 28 May 1925, lot 18, "Giovanni Passeri, Allegory of Time, red chalk and brush, 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in."). (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, by 1961). Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
McCrindle, Joseph F.

Exhibition History

1961: Exhibition of Old Master Drawings. P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 1961, no. 67.

2012: The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 70-71, no. 24 (entry by Carolina Mangone).

Bibliography

1976: Clifford, Timothy. "Another Clock Painted by Baciccio?" Burlington Magazine 118, no. 885 (December 1976): 852 note 4.