Tivoli and the Temple of the Sibyl Above the Aniene Gorge, 1824

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with gray wash, touched with watercolor, over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 48.6 x 38.5 cm (19 1/8 x 15 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips in Memory of His Brother Neil F. Philips

Accession Number

2007.111.99

Artists / Makers

Carl Wagner (artist) German, 1796 - 1867

Image Use

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Inscription

verso: light graphite sketch of a coastal scene with trees, cowherd, and a castle on a promontory; inscribed at top right in modern purple pencil: W860/20; at bottom right in modern graphite, six lines erased and now illegible, followed by: RA/Martin von Rohden/615

Provenance

Carl Heumann [1886-1945], Chiemnitz. Helmut Domizlaff [1902-1983], Munich. (Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich); sold 1997 as "near Reinhart" Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Heumann, Carl
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1950: Deutsche Romantiker in Italien, Städtische Galerie, Munich, 1950, no. 360, reprod. (as Martin von Rohden).

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 36, 37, 192-195, no. 67 (entry by Andrew Robison), under nos. 41, 65, and 94.

Bibliography

1965: Pinnau, Ruth Irmgard. Johann Martin von Rohden, 1778-1868, Leben und Werk. Bielefeld, 1965: 173, no. Z 88.

2000: Johann Martin von Rohden 1778-1868. Edited by Marianne Heinz. Exh. cat. Staatliche Museen Kassel, Neue Galerie, and Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal. Kassel, 2000: 209.

2010: Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." NGA Bulletin, Spring 2010: 10, 11, fig. 13.