Baptism from The Seven Sacraments Artist: Pietro Antonio Novelli (Italian, 1729–1804)

1769

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Brush and gray wash with pen and brown ink

Dimensions

image: 12 3/16 × 16 3/16 in. (31 × 41.1 cm)
sheet: 15 1/4 × 20 13/16 in. (38.7 × 52.9 cm)

Credit Line

Frederick M. Clapp, B.A. 1901, M.A. 1911, Fund

Accession Number

2015.59.1

Geography

Made in Italy

Culture

Italian

Period

18th century

Classification

Drawings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Padre Ghedini; Giuseppe Vallardi (1784-1863), mark (Lugt 1223) at lower right on each sheet; Hans Freiherr von und zu Aufsess, Bavaria and Nuremberg (1801-1872), mark (Lugt 2749) on verso of Marriage; anonymous sale, Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 20 June 1995, lot 28; Arturo Cuéllar and Corinne Nathan, Zurich, mark (Lugt 3439) on verso of Marriage; sale, Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 31 May 2013, lot 6341.
Bibliography
  • Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Enlightenment (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022), n.p.
  • "Acquisitions 2015," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2015), 71
  • W. M. Brady & Co., New York, Old Master and 19th-Century Drawings 1540–1890, sale cat. (2015), no. 21
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations), interior, interior architecture, religious art

Subject

Bibles altars angels (spirits) baptismal basins baptisms churches clouds columns (architectural elements) crucifixes curtains devils (spirits) infants priests sacramentaries

Marks

Padre Ghedini; Giuseppe Vallardi (1784-1863), mark (Lugt 1223) at lower right on each sheet; Hans Freiherr von und zu Aufsess, Bavaria and Nuremberg (1801-1872), mark (Lugt 2749) on verso of Marriage; Arturo Cuéllar and Corinne Nathan, Zurich, mark (Lugt 3439) on verso of Marriage

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