Elaborate Wall Decoration with Endymion and Hebe

Provenance

An "aristocratic family," Sicily; (their sale, Christie's, London, 10 December 2015, no. 24); David H. McDonnell, Arlington, VA; gift to NGA, 2017.

Elaborate Wall Decoration with Endymion and Hebe

Bigatti, Tommaso

c. 1800

Accession Number

2017.126.3

Medium

gouache with gum arabic on "swan skin" (fine mammalian parchment made to appear avian)

Dimensions

sheet: 30.2 × 53 cm (11 7/8 × 20 7/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of David H. McDonnell