The Triumph of Painting (Design for a Frontispiece[?])

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1898.152
People: Johann Christian Sperling, German (1691 - 1746)
Title: The Triumph of Painting (Design for a Frontispiece[?])
Other Titles: Former Title: Allegorical Subject
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 18th century
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/312413

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

22.3 x 16.5 cm (8 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

watermark: IV [Guiffrey 4]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Lindner collection (no. 235). John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year: 1898
Object Number: 1898.152
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 422

Verification Level

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