The Generosity of Empress Pulcheria, 1644

Not on View

Medium

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

Dimensions

sheet: 19.1 x 25 cm (7 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.165

Artists / Makers

Johann Christoph Storer (artist) German, c. 1591 - 1671

Image Use

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Inscription

at lower left, brown ink, by another hand: Christ. Storer; on the mount at top right: Tüngel, IV 1973

Provenance

Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna and Vaduz (Lugt 4398). Richard Tüngel (1892-1970), Ahrensburg, by 1966. Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Liechtenstein, Princes of
List, Herbert
Stiftung Ratjen
Tüngel, Richard

Exhibition History

1965: Zeichnungen alter Meister aus deutschem Privatbesitz, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 1965, 21-22, no. 76, fig. 118.

1966: Deutsche Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Staatliche Museen Berlin 1966, 141-142, no. 205, fig. 203.

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 34, no. 5.

Bibliography

1938: Thöne, Heinrich. "Der Maler Johann Christophorus Storer als Zeichner" Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 13 (1938/1939): 217, fig. 4, 231, no. 28.

1980: Bora, Giulio. "Alcuni disegni per incisioni lombarde del Cinque e Seicento." Rassegna di studi e di notizie 8 (1980): 116-117, fig. 18

1994: Bora, Giulio. Arte, apparati, emblemi a Milano al tempo di Cesare Monti, Le stanze del Cardinal Monti 1635-1650. La collezione ricomposta. Milan, 1994: 47, fig. 11.

2000: Appuhn-Radtke, Sibylle. Visuelle Medien im Dienst der Gesellschaft Jesu: Johann Christoph Storer (1620-1671) als Mahler der Katholischen Reform. Regensburg, 2000: 62, 63, fig. 19a.