A Complex of Rustic Houses Built Over Ruins

1509/1515

Giorgione

Artist, Venetian, 1477/1478 - 1510

Giulio Campagnola

Artist, Venetian, 1482 - after 1514

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper; laid on mid-eighteenth century Italian paper

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

  • Dimensions

    overall: 17.6 × 26.6 cm (6 15/16 × 10 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.11.66

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

? Joseph Farington [1747-1821] (Lugt 1453), London; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1975, lot 21, as Circle of Giorgione), purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by descent to Andrea Woodner, New York, 1990; given to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 18 (as Venetian School).

  • Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 14 (as Venetian School).

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 14 (as Venetian School).

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 18 (as Venetian School).

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 30.

2006

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

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 10.

2017

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

Bibliography

1986

  • Die Sammlung Ian Woodner. Exh. cat. Albertina, Vienna, 1986: 30-31.

  • Meisterzeichnungen aus sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner. Exh. cat. Dumont, Munich, 1986: 56-57.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection. Exh cat. Royal Academy of Art, London, 1987: 48-49.

1990

  • Woodner Collection: Master Drawings. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990: 56-57.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: 148-149, no. 30.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left in pen and brown ink: Titiano; by later hand, lower right in pen and brown ink: bl “Titiano”; br “1606” and “no 69”; verso: “J ” and “Titiano”

Watermarks

primary support: paschal lamb in a circle, Briquet 47 (Venice 1484); secondary support: fleur-de-lis in double circle with initial

Wikidata ID

Q64540041

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