An Elaborate Rococo Setting with the Virgin and Child and Saints Defeating Evil, Heresy, and Profane Love

1760s

Vitus Felix Rigl

Artist, German, c. 1717 - 1779

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with wash and white heightening on blue prepared laid paper, incised for transfer

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 44.1 x 34.2 cm (17 3/8 x 13 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.45.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

from an 18th - 19th century scrapbook in Private Collection, Oklahoma; Private Collection, Pasadena, California; (Monroe Warshaw, New York); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Bibliography

2002

  • Old Master Drawings. Kunstkabinett, New York (Monroe Warshaw), 2002, no. 9 (entry by Gode Krämer).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in brown ink: v. Felix Rigl Delin.

Wikidata ID

Q64633964

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