Jupiter and Ganymede Above an Extensive Landscape

Provenance

Barthold Suermondt (1818-1887), Aachen; Count Grigory Stroganoff [1829-1910], Rome; André de Hevesy, Paris (exh. Matthiesen Ltd, London, February-April 1939, no. 77); Edward Holland-Martin, London (his sale, Christie's, London, 20 May 1966, no. 103, as Giovanni Bellini; sold to Bryant); Christie's, London, 22 November 1966, 132; private collection, California; purchased (via Olimpia Theodoli and Michael Miller Lucy Vivante Fine Arts, New York) by NGA, 1996.

Jupiter and Ganymede Above an Extensive Landscape

Bellini, Giovanni

1490s

Accession Number

1996.11.1

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper, the two figures (only) incised (laid on late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century mount)

Dimensions

overall: 15.2 × 11.9 cm (6 × 4 11/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund