A Prophet Addressed by an Angel

Provenance

Guillaume Hubert [d. 1760] (Lugt 1160), Paris; Thomas Hudson [1701-1779] (Lugt 2432), London; (sale, Langford, 17 March 1779, part of no. 44, as Pellegrino Tibaldi); William Roscoe (sale, Thomas Winstanley, Liverpool, 23-29 September 1816, no. 348, as Pellegrino Tibaldi). Private collection (sale, London, Christie's, 5 April 1977, no. 43); purchased by David Tunick Gallery, New York; Robert and Clarice Smith, Bethesda, Maryland; given to NGA in 1985.

A Prophet Addressed by an Angel

Sebastiano del Piombo

1517/1519

Accession Number

1985.40.1

Medium

black chalk with gray and brown wash above four stylus arcs at bottom right, heightened with white and squared with red chalk on blue paper, laid down on late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century mount

Dimensions

overall: 32 × 25 cm (12 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith