The Immaculate Conception, 1740s

Not on View

pen and brown ink with gray wash, heightened and corrected with white and blue gouache over graphite on blue laid paper

sheet: 33 x 19.1 cm (13 x 7 1/2 in.)

2007.111.52

Johann Georg Bergmüller (artist) German, 1688 - 1762

at bottom left in brown ink signed: JGBergmüller Fecit.; verso: [illeg.]

Heinrich Wallraff (1858-1930), Nuremberg. (sale, Helmut Tenner, Heidelberg 6-8 May 1976, no. 5127). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Stiftung Ratjen
Tenner, Wolfgang
Wallraff, Heinrich

2004: Johann Georg Bergmüller 1688 - 1762, Die Zeichnungen, Salzburger Barockmuseum; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, 3. Dezember 2004 - 17. April 2005: 106, 147, no. 32.

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 80-81, no. 15.