The Immaculate Conception

1740s

Johann Georg Bergmüller

Artist, German, 1688 - 1762

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with gray wash, heightened and corrected with white and blue gouache over graphite on blue laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 33 x 19.1 cm (13 x 7 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.111.52

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Heinrich Wallraff (1858-1930), Nuremberg. (sale, Helmut Tenner, Heidelberg 6-8 May 1976, no. 5127). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Johann Georg Bergmüller 1688 - 1762, Die Zeichnungen, Salzburger Barockmuseum; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, 3. Dezember 2004 - 17. April 2005: 106, 147, no. 32.

2010

  • German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 80-81, no. 15.

Inscriptions

at bottom left in brown ink signed: JGBergmüller Fecit.; verso: [illeg.]

Wikidata ID

Q64581965

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