A Kneeling Woman with an Incense Burner and a Page Holding a Crown and Scepter

Anton Kern, Giambattista Pittonic. 1726

Details

Title: A Kneeling Woman with an Incense Burner and a Page Holding a Crown and Scepter
Creator: Anton Kern, after Giovanni Battista Pittoni the younger
Date Created: c. 1726
Physical Dimensions: overall: 26.8 x 39.8 cm (10 9/16 x 15 11/16 in.)
Provenance: Private Collection (sale London, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 27 March 1979, no. 57 as Pittoni); Spencer Drummond Limited, Hamilton, Bermuda; William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA, April 1980; gift to NGA, 1991.
Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white on laid paper

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