Signore Sebastiano Conca, Pittore Napoletano (Signore Sebastiano Conca, Neapolitan Painter), 1734/1755

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper mounted on album page

Dimensions

sheet: 31.6 x 21.5 cm (12 7/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
support: 48 x 38 cm (18 7/8 x 14 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1975.30.1

Artists / Makers

Pier Leone Ghezzi (artist) Roman, 1674 - 1755

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, across bottom in pen and brown ink: Il Sigre. Bastian Conca Pittore Napoletano [?]issimo il quale in atta dipingere / Sig.re Gio.Battista Conca Pittore Napoletano.

Provenance

From three volumes of caricatures probably executed in Rome at the court of Carlos, King of Naples between 1734 and 1755 who acceded the throne of Spain as Carlos III in 1759; by inheritance to Carlos IV, 1788-1808; Joseph Bonaparte [1768-1844], King of Naples and Spain,1808-1813; Marquis of Wellesley (later Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington), 1814. (Robert M. Light, Santa Barbara); purchased by NGA, 1975.

Associated Names

Bonaparte, Joseph
Carlos III, King of Spain
Carlos IV, King of Spain
Light, Robert M., Mr.
Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Arthur

Exhibition History

2000: Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, no. 356, repro.

2018: Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.