The Banquet of Acheloüs
c. 1545
Artist, Italian, 1500/1504 - 1556
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink with brown and blue-gray washes, heightened with white gouache on laid paper washed light brown
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 30.4 x 47.4 cm (11 15/16 x 18 11/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.141
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
August Grahl, Dresden [1791 - 1868] (Lugt 1199); (his sale, Sotheby's London, 28 April 1885, no. 324, as Perino del Vaga). (sale, Max Perl, Berlin, 8-9 November 1926, no. 505). (sale, Weinmüller, Munich, 20-21 May 1941, no. 704). (sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 19 February 1942, no. 526). Bernhard Funck [1895-1993], Munich (not in Lugt). Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased by NGA, 2007.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1972
L'Ecole de Fontainebleau.Grand Palais, Paris. Paris, 1972, 129, no. 138 (entry by Sylvie Béguin).
1977
Stiftung Ratjen, Italienische Zeichnungen des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staaliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Graphische Sammlung, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, 84, no. 36 (entry by Richard Harprath).
1979
Zeichnungen italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München. Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, 64, no. 110.
1995
Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 2.
1996
Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 2.
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 26-27, 274-275, no. 4.
2011
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2011, no. 3.
Bibliography
1982
Miller, Naomi. Heavenly Caves: Reflections on the Garden Grotto. London, 1982: 53.
1988
Goldner, George R., et al. The J. Paul Getty Museum, European Drawings I. Malibu, 1988: 78, under no. 29.
1994
Brugerolles, Emmanuelle, and David Guillet. Le Dessin en France au XVIe siècle. Paris, 1994: 136 (published in English as The Renaissance in France: Drawings from the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Cambridge, 1994).
1996
Amico, Léonard H. Bernard Palissy et ses continuateurs: à la recherche du paradis terrestre. Paris, 1996, 49, 50, fig. 35.
Inscriptions
in white gouache on the table cloth at left of center: Luc Penni; on the verso, in graphite at center: 338
Watermarks
grapes with letters I and F (Briquet 13190)
Wikidata ID
Q64594063