Ancient Trees in the Roman Campagna

1850s

Giovanni Costa

Artist, Italian, 1826 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 39.8 × 27.5 cm (15 11/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.108.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

By descent until c. 2005; (Paolo Antonacci, Rome); (Nicolaas Teeuwisse, Berlin); (sale, Christie's South Kensington, 18 July 2012, no. 877, with a second drawing of trees by Costa); (W/S Fine Art, London); (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London); purchased by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • Renaissance to Futurism: Italian Drawings 1500 - 1920, London, Stephen Ongpin, 2015, no. 51.

Wikidata ID

Q64572399

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