A Boy Gazing Upward in Adoration

Provenance

Private collection, Paris, in 1997; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1998, no. 21); purchased by P. & D. Colnaghi's, London for NGA, purchase in 1998.

A Boy Gazing Upward in Adoration

Cesi, Bartolomeo

c. 1594

Accession Number

1998.75.1

Medium

red chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 14.8 x 13.6 cm (5 13/16 x 5 3/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and The William Stamps Farish Fund