The Last Judgment, c. 1567

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over traces of red and black chalk, squared for transfer with black chalk, on cream laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 41.5 x 19.7 cm (16 5/16 x 7 3/4 in.), arched top

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.177

Artists / Makers

Giorgio Vasari (artist) Florentine, 1511 - 1574

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso, in graphite at lower center: Georgio Vasari; in another hand (very lightly): G. Vasari; and at center, O. Zurchero

Provenance

(sale, Weinmüller, Munich, 13 October 1938, no. 699). Bernhard Funck (1895-1993), Munich [Lugt 3835]. Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Funck, Bernhard
List, Herbert
Ratjen, Ursula and Adolf
Stiftung Ratjen
Weinmüller

Exhibition History

1977: Stiftung Ratjen, Italienische Zeichnungen des 16.. - 18. Jahrhunderts. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Graphische Sammlung, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, no. 41 (entry by Gunther Thiem).

1979: Zeichnungen Italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloos Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, no. 112.

1981: Giorgio Vasari, Casa Vasari, Arezzo, 1981, no. 36b, fig. 159 (entry by Julian Kliemann).

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 17.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 17.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2011, no. 5.

Bibliography

1972: Monbeig-Goguel, Catherine. Inventaire générale des dessins italiens I: Vasari et son temps. Paris, 1972: 152, under no. 198.

1985: Ieni, Giulio. "'Una macchina grandissima quasi a guisa d'arco trionfale': l'altare vasariano" Pio V e Santa Croce di Bosco. Alessandria, 1985: 53-54.

1994: Härb, Florian. "Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574): Die Zeichnungen." Dissertation, University of Vienna, 1994, 1: 261, no. 330, 2: pl. 330.

1996: Giovannetti, Alessandra. "L'altare Vasariano della chiesa di Santa Croce a Boscomarengo (1567-1569)." In Anna Forlani Tempesti, ed. Altari e immagini nello spazio ecclesiale: Progetti e realizzazioni fra Firenze e Bologna nell'età della Controriforma. Florence, 1996: 90, fig. 3.

2001: Scorza, Rick. "Un nouveau dessin de Vasari pour l'autel de l'église Santa Croce à Bosco Marengo," Revue du Louvre 51, no. 2 (2001): 55, note 6.