# Allegory of Painting

- By: Rosalba Carriera (Venetian, 1675 - 1757)
- Date: 1730s
- Medium: pastel and red chalk on blue laid paper mounted on canvas (on strainer)
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: overall: 44.3 × 34.1 cm (17 7/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
- Culture: Venetian
- Credit line: Samuel H. Kress Collection
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.277.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/f3c08ae6-34c9-464e-bf4c-34c03d0abfaa/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)