The Triumph of Wisdom

c. 1750

Bartolomeo Tarsia

Artist, Venetian, c. 1690 - 1765

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brown ink with gray and brown wash and white heightening over black chalk, squared for transfer in black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 56.8 x 32.5 cm (22 3/8 x 12 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.153.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Henri Lacroix, Paris (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18-23 March 1901, no. 196 as Noel Coypel, Composition allégorique). Private collection (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11 March 1944, no. 7). (Paul Prouté S.A., Paris, 1966). Private collection (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 June 1991, no. 37); (Adolphe Stein, Paris); (sale, Christie's, London, 4 July 2000, no. 44, unsold); NGA purchase from Stein in 2000.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1966

  • Dessins originaux anciens et modernes...., Paul Prouté S.A., Paris, 1966: no. 25 (as attributed to Noël Coypel the Elder).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: francois Lemoine?; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: RFF / No. 40

Wikidata ID

Q64537163

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