Erminia, c. 1648

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Medium

red chalk on cream laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 20.8 x 15.3 cm (8 3/16 x 6 in.), octagonal (all four corners cut)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2007.111.101

Artists / Makers

Guercino (artist) Bolognese, 1591 - 1666

Image Use

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Provenance

John Clerk, Lord Eldin; (his sale, Winstanley & Sons, Edinburgh, 14-29 March 1833, no. 594. Sir Archibald Campbell; Sir George Campbell; Sir Ilay Campbell [1769-1848]; (sale of his collection, Christie's London, 26 March 1974, no. 70). Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich, (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Campbell, Archibald, Sir
Campbell, George, Sir
Campbell, Ilay, Sir
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Clerk, Lord Eldin, John
List, Herbert
Ratjen, Ursula and Adolf
Stiftung Ratjen
Winstanley & Sons

Exhibition History

1953: Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Sir George Campbell, Bt. Glasgow Art Gallery, 1953, no. 13.

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, no. 72 (entry by Dieter Graf).

1979: Zeichnungen Italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München. Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, 34, no. 50.

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz, Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 27.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 27.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 29.

Bibliography

1991: Stone, David. Guercino Master Draftsman, Works from North American Collections. Exh. cat. Harvard University Art Museums. Cambridge, MA, 1991: 215, 216under no. 35.

1992: Birke, Veronika, and Janine Kertész. Die italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina, Generalverzeichnis. Vol. 3. Vienna, 1992-1997: 1363, under Inv. 2414.