Erminia
c. 1648
Artist, Bolognese, 1591 - 1666
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
red chalk on cream laid paper
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Credit Line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Diane A. Nixon
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Dimensions
sheet: 20.8 x 15.3 cm (8 3/16 x 6 in.), octagonal (all four corners cut)
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Accession Number
2007.111.101
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
Wikidata ID
Q64572433