The Adoration of the Golden Calf, 1595/1596

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash, over black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 26.5 × 21.1 cm (10 7/16 × 8 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

Accession Number

2015.181.1

Artists / Makers

Hans Rottenhammer (artist) German, 1564 - 1625

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 8

Provenance

(sale, Piasa, Paris, 19 March 2004, no. 1, as attributed to Alessandro Maganza);(Jean Luc Baroni, Paris, 2005); private collection, England; (sale, Sotheby's London, 8 July 2015, no. 14); (via C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.

Exhibition History

2005: Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, Jean Luc Baroni, Inc., New York, 2005, no. 6.

2018: Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018-2019, not in cat.

Bibliography

2016: Bober, Jonathan. "Hans Rottenhammer, The Adoration of the Golden Calf." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 54 (Spring 2016): 23, repro.