Alexander Consecrating the Altars for the Twelve Olympian Gods

1545/1547

Perino del Vaga

Artist, Italian, 1501 - 1547

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk on laid paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection, Gift of Dian Woodner

  • Dimensions

    overall: 31.7 x 21 cm (12 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2011.42.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 25 January 1967; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • Prouté Catalogue, Dessins originaux anciens et modernes, Estampes Anciennes du XVe au XVIIIe siècle, Estampes Originales de maitres des XIXe et XXe siècles, Paris, 1966, no. 6.

  • Master Drawings, Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, 1966, no. 29.

1970

  • The Age of Vasari, Art Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana and tour, 1970, no. D24.

1971

  • Woodner Collection I: A Selection of Old Master Drawings before 1700, William H. Schab Gallery, New York and tour, 1971-72, no. 18.

1981

  • Gli affreschi di Paolo III a Castel Sant'Angelo: progetto ed esecuzione 1543-1548, Museo Nationale de Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, 1981-82, no. 74.

1983

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu and tour, 1983-85, no. 19.

1986

  • Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 21.

  • Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 26.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 19.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 25.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 48.

2001

  • "Perino del Vaga: tra Raffaello e Michelangelo" ("Perino del Vaga: between Raphael and Michelangelo"), Centro Internazionale d'Arte e di Cultura di Palazzo Te, Mantua, 2001.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

2020

  • Raphael and His Circle: Prints and Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2020, no cat.

Bibliography

n.d.

  • Ward, Roger. "Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Washington, D.C." The Burlington Magazine 126, no. 973 (April 1984): 252 (under no. 19).

1969

  • Bean, Jacob. "National Gallery of Scotland: Catalogue of Italian Drawings." Master Drawings VII (1969): 57, pl. 38.

1978

  • Harprath, Richard. Papst Paul III als Alexander der Grosse. Berlin, 1978: 43-46, pl. 74.

1994

  • Griswold, William and Linda Wolk-Simon. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings in New York Collections. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994: mentioned under no 66.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 48.

Inscriptions

lower left in pen and brown ink: perin / del vaga

Wikidata ID

Q64619307


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