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This drawing is a sketch of two people in dynamic poses. A woman is seated or reclining while looking upwards, a long cloth draped around her lower body. To the right, a man is standing with his knees bent, leaning forward, and reaching upward with one arm. This man is seen in profile, and has short, curly hair and a cloth draped over his shoulders like a cape. The man and the woman hold hands, and she has her other hand on his knee. The man reaches up towards a tree behind the woman, writing something into its bark with a long tool. In the bottom left corner, two small dogs sit at the feet of the woman. The drawing is in light gray lines on beige paper, and the shapes are loose, with few details.
National Gallery of Art · Drawing
Angelica and Medoro
Giovanni Battista Cipriani
- Medium
- graphite on laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 20.4 x 18.2 cm (8 1/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Accession number
- 1995.52.23
- Credit line
- Gift of William B. O'Neal
- Time span
- 1726 to 1750
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- Italian
- classical
- mythology
- Angelica
- Medoro
Provenance
Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram, Buckinghamshire, England [1877-1963]; (Sabin Galleries, Ltd., London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, 1975-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.
Inscription
by later hand, lower right in graphite: Cipriani
NGA object ID 75932. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.