Elaborate Wall Decorations with Venus and Adonis

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 Decorations with Venus and Adonis

Bigatti, Tommaso

c. 1800

Accession Number

2017.126.2

Medium

gouache over traces of graphite on "swan skin" (fine mammalian parchment made to appear avian)

Dimensions

sheet: 31.7 × 45.6 cm (12 1/2 × 17 15/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of David H. McDonnell