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Anton Kern

A Ceiling with Apollo Presiding over Military and Historical Learning, 1740s

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Medium

watercolor, pen and gray ink over traces of black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 34.1 x 44.4 cm (13 7/16 x 17 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Diane Allen Nixon and Ailsa Mellon Bruce and Professor William B. O'Neal Funds

Accession Number

2005.80.1

Artists / Makers

Anton Kern (artist) Bohemian, 1709 - 1747

Image Use

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Provenance

(Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd., London); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

Thomas Williams, Ltd.

Exhibition History

2007: Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

2023: Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

2004: Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd. Old Master Drawings. London, 2004: no. 18 (as South German School).

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