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Gerd Rosen

Galerie Gerd Rosen

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Ambrogio Figino, Studies of Glass Jars and Figures (recto), c. 1586, pen and brown ink with brown wash on light tan laid paper, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2007.111.81.a

Studies of Glass Jars and Figures (recto)

Ambrogio Figino · c. 1586 · pen and brown ink with brown wash on light tan laid paper ·  Accession ID  2007.111.81.a

Ambrogio Figino, Studies of Figures (verso), c. 1586, pen and brown ink over red chalk on laid paper, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2007.111.81.b

Studies of Figures (verso)

Ambrogio Figino · c. 1586 · pen and brown ink over red chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2007.111.81.b

Adolph Menzel, Atlases on the Wallpavillon of the Dresden Zwinger, 1880, graphite with stumping, on wove paper, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2007.111.126

Atlases on the Wallpavillon of the Dresden Zwinger

Adolph Menzel · 1880 · graphite with stumping, on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2007.111.126

Printed with black lines on light tan paper, a balding, bearded, muscular man kneels next to a small lion in a rocky landscape in this vertical engraving. The man’s beard comes down beyond his chest, and his hair is long behind his receding hairline. His torso is bare while his lower body is wrapped in a cloth that falls in deep folds. He faces our left, gazing at a broken tree trunk with a cluster of weeds growing near its roots. A small crucifix is thrust into the broken trunk. He holds a rock in his outstretched right hand, on our left. The lion crouches next to him with his eyebrows gathered low as he looks off to our left. Beyond them, a landscape rises along either side of a path leading toward a church in the distance. On the left side are the cracked walls of a building with plants growing out the top. On the right is the craggy face of a cliff with tall, slender trees growing on its top slope. The path darkens as it passes the cliff and reaches the church to our left of center. In the far distance to the right of the cliff is a castle-like structure with square towers. Deep shadows around the man and lion and along the path are created with areas of densely spaced, black hatched lines, and unmarked areas create bright highlights. The artist signed the work with monogram made of a capital D tucked between the legs of an uppercase A.
Albrecht Dürer, Saint Jerome Penitent in the Wilderness, c. 1496, engraving on laid paper, Joan and David Maxwell Fund, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and The Ahmanson Foundation, 2011.22.1

Saint Jerome Penitent in the Wilderness

Albrecht Dürer · c. 1496 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2011.22.1

A grassy field leading back to hazy mountains under a sun shown in eclipse are painted with muted earthy tones in this horizontal watercolor. The field along the bottom third of the sheet is painted in soft peanut brown, and a line of trees on the far side are misty sage green. Ridges of the mountains are layered like sheets of torn paper under a parchment-white sky. The sun at the top center is mostly covered by a silvery disk.
Caspar David Friedrich, New Moon or Solar Eclipse above the Riesengebirge Mountains, 1810 or 1828/1835, pen and gray ink with watercolor over graphite on wove paper, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke and Dian Woodner, 2007.111.10

New Moon or Solar Eclipse above the Riesengebirge Mountains

Caspar David Friedrich · 1810 or 1828/1835 · pen and gray ink with watercolor over graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2007.111.10