Art, literature & history
The Peep-Show
1765/1766
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink with gray and yellow-brown washes over black chalk on laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 16.9 × 24.2 cm (6 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1983.74.14
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Pietro Antonio Novelli. The Peep-Show. Pietro Antonio Novelli; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pietro_Antonio_Novelli,_The_Peep-Show,_1765-1766,_NGA_62610.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Peep-Show — Pietro Antonio Novelli. 1765/1766.
Medium: pen and black ink with gray and yellow-brown washes over black chalk on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 16.9 × 24.2 cm (6 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1983.74.14. Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.