Abbot Antonio Niccolini

c. 1725

Pier Leone Ghezzi

Artist, Roman, 1674 - 1755

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and iron gall ink over graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 30.6 x 21.8 cm (12 1/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
    mount: 36.8 x 27.7 cm (14 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.126

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

From an album acquired by Richard Neville Neville [1717-1793] in Paris in 1763; inherited in 1793 by Richard Aldworth Griffin-Neville, 2nd Baron Braybrooke; by descent to Robin Henry Charles Neville, 10th Lord Braybrooke (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 10 December 1979, no. 87). Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 78-79, no. 28 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left verso in pen and brown ink: Mr. L'Ab. Nicolini

Wikidata ID

Q64619555

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