The Arts and Powers Pay Homage to Emperor Charles VI

1732

Johann Evangelist Holzer

Artist, German, 1709 - 1740

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with gray wash, heightened with white and blue-gray oil paint over graphite on two sheets of brown laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 56.1 x 45 cm (22 1/16 x 17 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.111.14

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection, Israel; (sale, Christie's London, 12 April 1983, no. 171). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2010

  • German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 36, no. 13, under no. 4.

Bibliography

1990

  • Rapp, Jürgen. "'J. Holzer fecit sub Directione Domini J.G. Bermgüller'--Johann Evangelist Holzer arbeitet für Johann Georg Bergmüller," Pantheon 48 (1990): 87-88, fig. 6.

1998

  • Friedlmaier, Karin. Johann Georg Bergmüller: Das druckgraphische Werk. Marburg, 1998: 88.

Inscriptions

at bottom center in brown ink, signed and dated: J. Holzer fecit 1732/sub directione Dni J. G. Bergmiller; at bottom in brown ink, the shields numbered: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 13, 14

Wikidata ID

Q64581955

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