Illusionistic Architecture for the Vault of San Ignazio, 1685/1690

Not on View

Medium

pen and gray and brown ink with gray wash on two joined sheets of heavy laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 50.4 x 91.2 cm (19 13/16 x 35 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert M. and Anne T. Bass

Accession Number

1994.16.1

Artists / Makers

Andrea Pozzo (artist) Italian, 1642 - 1709

Image Use

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Provenance

Italian art market; Lodewijk Houthakker, Amsterdam (hand holding pen or brush, Lugt undescribed), acquired 1986; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London (sale, April-May 1993, p. 14, pl. 27); purchased 1994 by NGA.

Associated Names

Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd.

Exhibition History

1995: Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

1999: The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe 1600-1750, La Palazzina de Caccia di Stupinigi, Turin; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, 1999-2001, 505.

2000: Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001.

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

Bibliography

1989: Fuhring, Peter. Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornament: The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection. 2 vols. London, 1989: no. 313.