The Fall of Phaeton, 1745/1750

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink over red chalk with brown and gray wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Overall (approximate): 40.7 x 33 cm (16 x 13 in.)
support: 50.6 x 43.4 cm (19 15/16 x 17 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Accession Number

1978.52.3

Artists / Makers

Gaspare Diziani (artist) Venetian, 1689 - 1767

Image Use

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Inscription

in unknown hand, lower left in brown ink on mount: S." Ritchi

Provenance

Armand Louis de Mestral de Saint Saphorin [1738-1806]; Marguerite and Madeline de Mestral; Rene de Cerenville, Lausanne; Nathan Chaikin; David Daniels; (sold, Sotheby's, London, 25 April 1978, no. 37); (David Tunick, Inc.); acquired 1978 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Chaikin, Nathan, Mr.
Sotheby's, London
Tunick, Inc., David
de Cerenville, Rene
de Mestral de Saint Saphorin, Armand Louis
de Mestral, Madeleine
de Mestral, Madeleine

Exhibition History

1994: The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 267, 269, 449, no. 173 (repro. p. 269, color)(entry by Margherita Giacometti).

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 76.

Bibliography

1974: Pignatti, Terisio. Venetian Drawings from American Collections. Washingon, 1974: 32, 57.

1981: Pignatti, Teresio. Disegni antichi del Museo Correr di Venezia. Vol. II (Dall'Oglio-Fontebasso). Venice, 1981: 122.

1994: The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: 267, 269, 449, no. 173.