An Elaborate Rococo Setting with the Virgin and Child and Saints Defeating Evil, Heresy, and Profane Love, 1760s

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Medium

pen and black ink with wash and white heightening on blue prepared laid paper, incised for transfer

Dimensions

overall: 44.1 x 34.2 cm (17 3/8 x 13 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2002.45.1

Artists / Makers

Vitus Felix Rigl (artist) German, c. 1717 - 1779

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right in brown ink: v. Felix Rigl Delin.

Provenance

from an 18th - 19th century scrapbook in Private Collection, Oklahoma; Private Collection, Pasadena, California; (Monroe Warshaw, New York); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Warshaw, Monroe

Exhibition History

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Bibliography

2002: Old Master Drawings. Kunstkabinett, New York (Monroe Warshaw), 2002, no. 9 (entry by Gode Krämer).