The Four Elements, c. 1530

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 24.2 x 33.7 cm (9 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.95

Artists / Makers

Giulio Romano (artist) Roman, 1499 - 1546

Image Use

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Provenance

Pierre Crozat [1665-1740], Paris. Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris [1694 - 1774](Lugt 1852). Marquis de Lagoy, Aix en Provence [1764 - 1829] (Lugt 1710). Thomas Dimsdale London [1758 - 1823](Lugt 2426). Sir Thomas Lawrence, London [1769 - 1830](Lugt 2445). Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, London [1800 - 1857] (Lugt 2710b), and by descent; (his sale, Sotheby's London, 5 December 1972, no. 17); Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Crozat the Younger, Pierre
Dimsdale, Thomas
Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, Francis
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir
List, Herbert
Mariette, Pierre-Jean
Meryan, Marquis de Lagoy, Jean-Baptiste-Florentin-Gabriel de
Ratjen, Ursula and Adolf
Sotheby's, London
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1836: Fifth Exhibition, Julio Romano, Francesco Primaticcio, Leonardo da Vinci, and Pierino del Vaga, Collected by Sir Thomas Lawrence..., The Lawrence Gallery, London, 1836, no. 12.

1989: Fürstenhöfe der Renaissance: Giulio Romano und die klassische Tradition. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Neue Burg. Vienna, 1989, 151, 153, no. IV/84 (essay by Konrad Oberhuber).

1989: Giulio Romano, Palazzo Te, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua. Milan, 1989, 426 (entry by Konrad Oberhuber).

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 1.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 1 (David Lachenmann).

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2011, no. 1.

2020: Raphael and His Circle: Prints and Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2020, no cat.

Bibliography

1958: Hartt, Frederick. Giulio Romano. New Haven, 1958, 1: 89, 295, no. 141, 2: fig. 151.

2007: Giordano, Sebastiano. Una nuova lettura dell'allegorismo cinquecentesco. "Igne Natura Renovatur Integra: Dal chaos alla Redenzione" in Giulio Romano. in Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, series 9, vol. 21, fasc. 2. Rome, 2007: 433, fig. 75.