The Madonna Enthroned with Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist, 1589

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over traces of graphite, heightened with white gouache, incised throughout and verso reddened for transfer, on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 22.8 x 33.8 cm (9 x 13 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Accession Number

2007.111.45

Artists / Makers

Hans von Aachen (artist) German, 1552 - 1615

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso, in graphite at top center: 0; at center: 40; and at bottom center: 3-60

Provenance

Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769 - 1830) (Lugt 2445). John MacGowen, Edinburgh, (died 1803) (Lugt 1496). Armand Gobiet [1902-1975], Salzburg. Dr. Georg Schaller, Bairawies über Wolfratshausen. (sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 5-6 June 1984, no. 1). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Gobiet, Armand
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir
MacGowan, John
Schaller, Georg
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1953: Meister des Barock, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1953 (no catalog).

2005: In Europa zu Hause: Niederländer in München um 1600. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, 2005: 234-35, no. D23.

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580-1900, NGA, 2010: 52-3, no. 2.

Bibliography

1985: Fuciková, Eliska. "Towards a Reconstruction of Pieter Isaacsz.' Early Career" Netherlandish Mannerism: Papers Given at a Symposium in the Nationalmusei Stockholm, September 21-22, 1984. Stockholm, 1985: 166.

1996: Jacoby, Joachim. "Hans van Aachen." The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts 1400-1700: 18 and fig. 12.

2001: Lachenmann, David. "Wolfgang Ratjen as Collector." Master Drawings, vol. 39, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 109 and fig. 5.

2010: Fusenig, Thomas, ed. Hans von Aachen (1552-1615), Court Artist in Europe. Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen. Berlin, 2010: reprod. 46, fig. 50.

2010: Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." NGA Bulletin, Spring 2010: 12, 15, fig. 16.