Rocky Landscape with a Natural Arch
c. 1575
Artist, Italian, 1512 - 1600
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white gouache on blue laid paper
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Credit Line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Diane A. Nixon
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Dimensions
overall: 20.9 x 26.9 cm (8 1/4 x 10 9/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.58
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Louis Deglatigny, Rouen (1854 - 1936) (Lugt1768a). P. and N. de Boer, Amsterdam; De Boer Foundation, Amsterdam; (their sale, Christie's London, 4 July 1995, no. 25). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1966
Oude Tekeningen: Een Keuze uit de Verzameling P. en N. de Boer. Singer Museum, Laren, The Netherlands, 1966, no. 219 (reproduced p. 49 with incorrect cat. no.)(as Bartholomeus Spranger).
2011
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 10.
Bibliography
1969
Bolten, Jaap. "Messer Ulisse Serverino da Cingoli, A Bypath in the History of Art." Master Drawings 7, no. 2 (Summer 1969): 137, no. 4.
Inscriptions
verso, at lower right in graphite: 924 (encircled and upside down); across bottom margin on small sliver of white paper pasted down, in graphite (upside down): J. de Momper le Jeune 1564-1635
Wikidata ID
Q64572096