The Spies Returning from Canaan, 1690s(?)

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with blue wash over black chalk, squared for transfer with red chalk, on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 58.7 × 33.3 cm (23 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.) (arched top)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

2015.87.1

Artists / Makers

Giacinto Calandrucci (artist) Italian, 1646 - 1707

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in black chalk: Do Fetti; lower center in black chalk: Do Fetti

Provenance

Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792) (Lugt 2364). (Adolphe Stein, Paris, by 1986). (sale, Christie's London, 3 July 1990, no. 44, as "Circle of Carlo Maratta"). (sale, Christie' s London, 2 July 1996, no. 146, as "Circle of Giacinto Calandrucci"). (sale, F. Tajan, Paris, 30 March 2011, no. 31). (Galerie Tarantino, Paris); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Galerie Tarantino

Exhibition History

1986: Master Drawings Presented by Adolphe Stein. Douwes Fine Art Gallery, London, 1986, no. 39, pl. 28 (as Carlo Maratta).

2014: Les Fastes du Pouvoir: Dessins et estampes du XVIe au XVIIIe siecle, Galerie Tarantino, Paris, 2014, no. 33.