Alexander the Great before the Corpse of Darius

Francesco Fontebasso1750s/1760s

Details

Title: Alexander the Great before the Corpse of Darius
Creator: Francesco Fontebasso
Date Created: 1750s/1760s
Physical Dimensions: sheet: 46.4 × 33.1 cm (18 1/4 × 13 1/16 in.)
Provenance: (sale, Stephan List, Frankfurt am Main, 3 April 1971, no. 340, as "Italienisch 18. Jahrhundert"); Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen [1943-1997], Vaduz and Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Medium: pen and brown ink over black chalk, brown and gray and red wash, strengthened with pen and black ink and tip of the brush with black wash, heighteend with white gouache (laid on eighteeneth century paper)

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