a) Study of a Man Kneeling, Looking Upward (recto); b) Studies of the Same Figure (verso)

Provenance

(sale, Christie’s, Paris, 26 June 2002, no. 54); private collection; (sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 26 January 2022, lot 27); (C.G. Boerner, New York); purchased by NGA, 2022.

a) Study of a Man Kneeling, Looking Upward (recto); b) Studies of the Same Figure (verso)

Fontebasso, Francesco

c. 1733

Accession Number

2022.51.1.a-b

Medium

a) pen and brown ink on laid paper b) pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 20.9 × 13.3 cm (8 1/4 × 5 1/4 in.) | mount: 26.8 × 19.4 cm (10 9/16 × 7 5/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Funds from Robert B. Loper