Fantastic Landscape with a Man Sleeping on a Rock

Provenance

(sale, Christie's, London, 16 April 1991, no. 145); private collection, Milan; (Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Fantastic Landscape with a Man Sleeping on a Rock

Biscaino, Bartolomeo

1650s

Accession Number

2018.165.2

Medium

red chalk, heightened with white gouache on light tan laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 34.8 × 27.2 cm (13 11/16 × 10 11/16 in.) | mount: 41.1 × 33.4 cm (16 3/16 × 13 1/8 in.) | framed: 62.23 × 46.99 cm (24 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

New Century Fund