Alexander Consecrating the Altars for the Twelve Olympian Gods
1545/1547
Artist, Italian, 1501 - 1547

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk on laid paper; laid down
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 31.7 x 21 cm (12 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)
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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