The Banquet of Acheloüs, c. 1545

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with brown and blue-gray washes, heightened with white gouache on laid paper washed light brown

Dimensions

overall: 30.4 x 47.4 cm (11 15/16 x 18 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.141

Artists / Makers

Luca Penni (artist) Italian, 1500/1504 - 1556

Image Use

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Inscription

in white gouache on the table cloth at left of center: Luc Penni; on the verso, in graphite at center: 338

Provenance

August Grahl, Dresden [1791 - 1868] (Lugt 1199); (his sale, Sotheby's London, 28 April 1885, no. 324, as Perino del Vaga). (sale, Max Perl, Berlin, 8-9 November 1926, no. 505). (sale, Weinmüller, Munich, 20-21 May 1941, no. 704). (sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 19 February 1942, no. 526). Bernhard Funck [1895-1993], Munich (not in Lugt). Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased by NGA, 2007.

Associated Names

Boerner, C.G., Mr.
Funck, Bernhard
Grahl, August
List, Herbert
Perl, Max
Ratjen, Ursula and Adolf
Sotheby's, London
Stiftung Ratjen
Weinmüller

Exhibition History

1972: L'Ecole de Fontainebleau.Grand Palais, Paris. Paris, 1972, 129, no. 138 (entry by Sylvie Béguin).

1977: Stiftung Ratjen, Italienische Zeichnungen des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staaliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Graphische Sammlung, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, 84, no. 36 (entry by Richard Harprath).

1979: Zeichnungen italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München. Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, 64, no. 110.

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 2.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 2.

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 26-27, 274-275, no. 4.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2011, no. 3.

Bibliography

1982: Miller, Naomi. Heavenly Caves: Reflections on the Garden Grotto. London, 1982: 53.

1988: Goldner, George R., et al. The J. Paul Getty Museum, European Drawings I. Malibu, 1988: 78, under no. 29.

1994: Brugerolles, Emmanuelle, and David Guillet. Le Dessin en France au XVIe siècle. Paris, 1994: 136 (published in English as The Renaissance in France: Drawings from the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Cambridge, 1994).

1996: Amico, Léonard H. Bernard Palissy et ses continuateurs: à la recherche du paradis terrestre. Paris, 1996, 49, 50, fig. 35.