Two Soldier Saints Adoring the Host, c. 1690(?)

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with graphite, heightened with white gouache, on brown laid paper, squared in black chalk for transfer

Dimensions

sheet: 27.5 x 20.4 cm (10 13/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.102

Artists / Makers

Michael Wenzel Halbax (artist) German, 1661 - 1711

Image Use

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Inscription

on backing paper at bottom right in brown ink: Halwachs del--; on verso at top right in graphite: No 436 Zeichnung; at bottom center in blue pencil: 104, and black ink: Schlägl[?]; at center right in graphite: 110[?]; at bottom right in brown ink: N. 570

Provenance

(sale, Buch- und Kunstantiquariat Franz Malota, Vienna, 1919, no. 99). (sale, Christies, London, 7 July 1981, no. 112). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, no. 8.

Bibliography

1963: Preiss, Pavel. "Poznámky k dilu Michala Václava Halbaxe." Umení 11 (1963): 294 (reprod.).

1970: Franzl, Ingrid. "Michael Wenzel Halbax: Leben und Werk." Unpublished dissertation, University of Innsbruck, 1970: 218-219, no. 32, pl. 27.

2006: Preiss, Pavel. Ceská barokní kresba/Baroque Drawing in Bohemia. Prague, 2006: 102-103 (reprod.).