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Jacopo Ligozzi

Avarice, 1590

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with gold

Dimensions

overall: 30.6 x 20 cm (12 1/16 x 7 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith

Accession Number

1984.56.1

Artists / Makers

Jacopo Ligozzi (artist) Italian, 1547 - 1627

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Inscription

inscribed by artist in pen and brown ink: on bag at bottom left, monogram "IL" joined by bar and cross (later altered by another hand to "HR") and dated; on two bags at bottom right "cehim" and "ongavi"

Provenance

Francois II, Duke of Modena [1660-1694] (Lugt 1893); by descent (until 1797?); X.M.C. von Schönberg-Rothschönberg; (sale, E. Arnold Gallery, Dresden, 1858); Ludwig von Biegeleben; (sale, Wawra Vienna, 15 November 1886, no. 2657); by 1916: Moritz von Kuffner, Vienna; by descent; Artemis Fine Arts, Ltd., London, 1982; Robert H. and Clarice Smith, Bethesda (MD); gift to NGA in 1984.

Associated Names

Duke of Modena, Francois II
Schonberg-Rothschonberg, X.M.C.
Smith, Robert H., Mr. and Mrs.
von Biegeleben, Ludwig
von Kuffner, Moritz

Exhibition History

1982: An Exhibition of Master Prints and Drawings, Artemis Fine Arts, Ltd., London, 1982, no. 13.

1992: From Studio to Studiolo: FLorentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, 1991-1992, 26, 108-109, no. 21.

2002: "Magnificenza! The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence" (L'ombra del genio: Michelangelo a l'arte a Firenze, 1537-1631), Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2002, no. 176.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 33.

Bibliography

1858: Nagler, G. K. Die Monogrammisten. Munich and Leipzig, 1863, 3: 546-547, under no. 1398.

1916: Peltzer, Rudolf Arthur. "Hans Rottenhammer." Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen es Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, 33 (1916): 298, 315, 360, fig. 1 (as Rottenhammer).

1920: Voss, Hermann. Die Malerei der Spätrenaissance in Rom und Florenz. Berlin, 1920, 2: 422, pl. 165.

1938: Thöne, Friedrich. "Jacopo Ligozzi (1542-1627)--Allegories of Envy and Vanity...," Old Master Drawings, 13, no. 50 (September 19380, 26.

1955: exh. cat. De Triomf van het Maniërisme de Europese Stijl van Michelangelo tot El Greco, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1955, 119, under no. 210.

1963: Bacci, Mina. "Jacopo Ligozzi e la sua posizione nella pittura fiorentina," Proporzioni, Studi di storia dell'Arte, 1963, 452.

1982: Case, David. The Calumny of Apelles, A Study in the Humanist Tradition. New Haven and London, 1981: 149, n. 29.

1985: exh. cat. Around 1610: The Onset of the Baroque, Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd, London, 1985, 27, under no. 5, repr. fig. 1.

1987: Trudzinski, Meinolf. Die italienischen und französischen Handzeichnunben im Kupferstichkabinett der Landesgalerie. Hannover, 1987: 96, under no 53.

1988: Viatte, Françoise. Inventaire général des dessins italiens, III, Dessins Toscans XVIe-XVIIIe siècles, Tome 1, 1560-1640. Paris, 1988, 135, under no. 235.

1991: From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes. Exh. cat. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH, 1991: 108-109.

1992: exh. cat. Jacopo Ligozzi, Le vedute del sacro monte della verna, I dipinti di Poppi e Bibbiena. Castello dei Conti Guidi, Poppi, 1992: 28, 43, n. 106.a

1994: Voss, Hermann. La Pittura del Tardo Rinascimento a Roma e a Firenze. Translated by Rossella Zeni. Rome, 1994: 267, pl. 165.

1997: Voss, Hermann. Painting of the Late Renaissance in Rome and FlorenceII, The Diffusion and transformation of mannerism, 1570-1600. Translated and revised by Suzanne Pelzel. San Francisco, 1997: 110, fig. 165 (mislabeled as by Domenico Passignano).