L'Orido a Bellano sul Lago di Como (The Orrido di Bellano near Lake Como)

Provenance

Estate of the artist; Samuel Birmann and Juliana Birmann-Visher, Basel. Öffentliche Kunstsammlungen, Basel, by 1859 (their deaccession stamp, no. 54, between 1912 and 1919. Private collection, Switzerland. (sale, Grisebach, Berlin, 25 November 2015, no. 104); (via C. G. Boerner LLC, New York); purchased 2015 by NGA.

L'Orido a Bellano sul Lago di Como (The Orrido di Bellano near Lake Como)

Birmann, Peter

c. 1805

Accession Number

2016.33.1

Medium

pen and black and brown ink with brown wash on wove paper, laid down

Dimensions

sheet: 50.2 × 69 cm (19 3/4 × 27 3/16 in.) | mount: 51.7 × 70.2 cm (20 3/8 × 27 5/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund