The Sacrifice of Isaac, c. 1755

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Medium

tip of the brush with gray ink over red chalk, gray wash, strengthened with pen and gray and brown ink, heightened with white gouache

Dimensions

sheet: 39.6 × 28.6 cm (15 9/16 × 11 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2007.111.68

Artists / Makers

Gaspare Diziani (artist) Venetian, 1689 - 1767

Image Use

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Provenance

Arthur Sambon [1867-1947], Paris (Lugt 3519); (Hans Calmann [1899-1982], London); Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Calmann, Hans M.
List, Herbert
Ratjen, Ursula and Adolf
Sambon, Arthur
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1977: Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts, Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, 206, no. 96.

1979: Zeichnungen Italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, no. 85.

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz, Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 38.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 38.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 46.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 77.

Bibliography

1977: Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1977: 206-207 and front cover

1981: Pignatti, Teresio. Disegni antichi del Museo Correr di Venezia. Vol. II (Dall'Oglio-Fontebasso). Venice, 1981: 69, under no. 295.

1995: Lachenmann, David. Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Vaduz, 1995: no. 38.

1996: Lachenmann, David. Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. Exh. cat. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996: no. 38.

2011: Italian Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1525-1835. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011: 106-107.