Sketch for a Baptism of Christ
Artist, Venetian, 1544 or 1548 - 1628

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash (heightened with white?) on brown washed laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 20.1 x 16.7 cm (7 15/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
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Accession
1950.20.10
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna (Lugt 4398); purchased 20 April 1948 through (Walter Felichenfeldt, Zurich) by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA;[1] gift to NGA in 1950.
[1] Rosenwald describes the acquisitions from Liechtenstein in Recollections of a Collector, 1976, p. 46-47.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1950
Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Accessions of Prints and Drawings, NGA, 1950, no. 64.
Bibliography
1944
Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. New York, 1944: 224, no. 1221.
1966
Zeichnungen alter Meister aus Deutschem Privatbesitz. Exh. cat. Kunsthalle Bremen, 1966: 12, under no. 16.
1992
Birke, Veronika, and Kertész, Janine. Die italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina. Vienna, 1994, 2: 895, under inv. no. 1688.
Inscriptions
upper right in brown ink: 24
Wikidata ID
Q64580062