The Adoration of the Magi
1756
Artist, German, 1713 - 1759
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache and yellow chalk, over graphite with traces of pricking on blue laid paper
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Credit Line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann
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Dimensions
overall: 28.9 x 19.8 cm (11 3/8 x 7 13/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.176
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Gerd Rosen, Berlin, 18 November 1957, no. 512). (sale, Kornfeld, Bern, 17 June 1987, no. 251). Wolfgang Ratjen; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, 36, 98 (under no. 23), 100-101, no. 24.
2023
Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.
Bibliography
1996
Georg Anton Urlaub, Ein fränkischer Maler im Banne Tiepolos. Exh. cat. Mainfränkisches Museum, Würzburg, 1996: 41, 44, note 38, 160 (under no. 96), 166 (under no. 97).
Inscriptions
by the artist at lower left in brown ink: a Königheim; at bottom left corner: traces of graphite [erased], and Roman and Arabic numerals [illeg.]
Watermarks
fleur-de-lys
Wikidata ID
Q64571170