Alexander the Great before the Corpse of Darius

Provenance

(sale, Stephan List, Frankfurt am Main, 3 April 1971, no. 340, as "Italienisch 18. Jahrhundert"); Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen [1943-1997], Vaduz and Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Alexander the Great before the Corpse of Darius

Fontebasso, Francesco

1750s/1760s

Accession Number

2007.111.82

Medium

pen and brown ink over black chalk, brown and gray and red wash, strengthened with pen and black ink and tip of the brush with black wash, heighteend with white gouache (laid on eighteeneth century paper)