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Antonio Tempesta or Agostino Ciampelli

An Architectural Wall Design in Honor of Henry IV, the Gallic Hercules, c. 1600

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Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 33.2 x 46.6 cm (13 1/16 x 18 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1996.73.1

Artists / Makers

Antonio Tempesta (artist) Florentine, 1555 - 1630

Agostino Ciampelli (artist) Florentine, 1565 - 1630

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Inscription

by later hand, lower center verso in pen and brown ink: Annibale Carracci; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Primaticcio

Provenance

H. Baderou, 1965; (Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam (Lugt undesc)); purchased by NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Houthakker, Bernard, Mr.

Exhibition History

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 43, as An Architectural Wall Design in Honor of Henry IV, the Gallic Hercules.

Bibliography

1989: Fuhring, Peter. Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornament. The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection. Amsterdam, 1989: no. 47.

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