Saint Augustine Subdues Heresy with Lightning Bolts from His Pen
1770s(?) (or 1780s?)
Artist, German, 1747 - 1788

Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor with pen and brown and gray ink over traces of graphite on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 24.7 x 18.1 cm (9 3/4 x 7 1/8 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.103
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dr. Herbert Dreyer, Berlin. Richard Tüngel [1893-1970], Ahrensburg. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, no. 35.
Bibliography
1987
Hamacher, Bärbel. Entwurf und Ausführung in der süddeutschen Freskomalerei des 18.Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1987: 101-102, no. 127, fig. 239.
1994
Parisi, Jeanette. "Studien zum Leben und Werk des Augsburger Barockmalers Joseph Hartmann mit einem Katalog seiner Fresken." M.A. thesis, Universität Zürich, 1994: 103.
2003
Epple, Alois. "Die Fresken von Johann Georg Bergmüller in Katholisch Heilig Kreuz in Augsburg." Materialien zur Bergmüller-Forschung_ 2/3, Türkheim, 2003: 317.
Inscriptions
lower right center in brown ink: Hartmann invinit; center verso in graphite: J Hartmann fec 176
Watermarks
not deciphered
Wikidata ID
Q64591197