Angels and Putti Flying with a Garland: Design for a Ceiling, c. 1675

Not on View

Medium

red and black chalk with touches of white chalk, squared in black chalk on light gray paper (formerly blue), with later framing line in brown ink

Dimensions

overall: 25.9 x 40 cm (10 3/16 x 15 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Donald Stone

Accession Number

2022.40.23

Artists / Makers

Charles de La Fosse (artist) French, 1636 - 1716

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Inscription

in pen and brownk at lower right: No. 8. Lafosse

Provenance

Private collection; (unknown sale, Rouen, 14 June 1998, no. 1). (W. M. Brady, New York); purchased 2006 by Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Brady & Co., Inc., W.M.
Stone, Donald

Exhibition History

1999: Old Master Drawings. W. M. Brady. New York, 1999, no. 13.

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 82-83, 279, no. 32 (color).

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

Bibliography

2006: Gustin Gomez, Clémentine. Charles de La Fosse, 1636-1716: Le maître des Modernes. 2 vols. Paris, 2006, 2: 297, no. D.272.