Alexander and the Wife of Darius

attributed to Francesco Trevisani, Italian, 1656 - 1746

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about 1735

Pen and ink, wash, and white heightening on paper

Overall: 6 1/16 × 6 5/16 in. (15.4 × 16 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Anthony and Lois Blumka

D.993.43.1

Geography

Place Made: Italy, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, on mount, in ink, bottom center: F. Trevisani

Exhibition History

Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7-September 9, 2001.

Rococo to Modernism: European Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection and Dartmouth's Alumni, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-May 30, 2004.

Publication History

T. Barton Thurber and Adrian W.B. Randolph, Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2001, listed p.74.

Published References

Reference to the painting, see: Frank R. Di Federico, Francesco Trevisani Eighteenth-Century Painter in Rome A Catalogue Raisonne, Decatur House Press, Washington, D.C., 1977, p. 71, #115.

Provenance

Ruth Blumka (1920-1994), New York, New York; given to her son and daughter-in-law Anthony and Lois Blumka, New York, New York, 1993; given to present collection, 1993.

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