Diana Resting after the Hunt, 1775/1780

Not on View

Medium

watercolor, pen and gray ink, and gray wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, over graphite, laid down on old album sheet

Dimensions

sheet: 17.8 x 35.1 cm (7 x 13 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Diane A. Nixon

Accession Number

2007.111.73

Artists / Makers

Johann Baptist Enderle (artist) German, 1725 - 1798

Image Use

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Inscription

on mount at bottom left in graphite: Jo: Holzer A.V.

Provenance

Siegfried Laemmle [1863-1953], Munich and Los Angeles; his son Walter Laemmle, Munich and Los Angeles. (Blumka Gallery, New York); sold 2004 to Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Blumka Gallery
Laemmle, Siegfried
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1956: German and Austrian Prints and Drawings of the Eighteenth Century. The University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, 1956, no. 24 (as Johann Evangelist Holzer).

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, no. 34.

Bibliography

1923: Feulner, Adolf. Bayerisches Rokoko. Munich, 1923: 98 (as Johann Holzer).

1970: Dasser, Karl Ludwig. Johann Baptist Enderle (1725-1798). Ein schwäbischer Maler des Rokoko. Weissenhorn, 1970: 71, 157, fig. 184.

1987: Hamacher, Bärbel. Entwurf und Ausführung in der süddeutschen Freskomalerei des 18. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1987: 47, 169, no. 105.

1998: Batz, Karl, et al. Der Donauwörther Rokokomaler Johann Baptist Enderle (1725-1798). Donauwörth, 1998: 35 ("Diana").

2007: Ludwig, Heidrun. Die Gemälde des 18. Jahrhunderts im Landesmuseum Mainz. Mainz am Rhein, 2007: 76, 77 n. 269.

2010: Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." NGA Bulletin, Spring 2010: 7, fig. 8.