A Vestal Virgin Entombed

Giovanni David (Italian, 1749–1790)

after 1775

Medium/TechniquePen and brown ink and brush with brown and gray wash, heightened with white, red, green, and gray opaque watercolor, over black chalk on paper

DimensionsSheet: 44.2 x 29.4 cm (17 3/8 x 11 9/16 in.)
Framed: 66.5 x 52 cm (26 3/16 x 20 1/2 in.)

Credit LineJuliana Cheney Edwards Collection

Accession number2009.346

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ClassificationsDrawings

Collections

ProvenanceAnonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, July 3, 1995, lot 147 (as attributed to Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours); anonymous sale, London, Christies, July 8, 2003, lot 56 (as Giuseppe Bernardino Bison); Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd., 2004 (London); private collection, until October 2008 (Kyoto, Japan); Stephen Ongpin Fine Art (2008); from whom purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession date: March 25, 2009)