The Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist, c. 1546

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash and white gouache over black chalk, squared with black chalk on green-gray laid paper (originally blue), with a part of the lower edge replaced

Dimensions

overall: 41.4 x 25.3 cm (16 5/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.169

Artists / Makers

Pellegrino Tibaldi (artist) Italian, 1527 - 1596

Image Use

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Inscription

bottom of old mount in brown ink: Domenichino-(from Benjamin West's collection-previously in Jonathan Richardson's.); on verso in brown ink at center, the same text but the last four letters cut off and preserved on a small piece of the old mount, re-adhered below on the right margin. at lower right in graphite (by Herbert List): R Lugt 2170. J Richardson Junr 1694-1771 London/B.W Lugt 419-Benjamin West 1738-1820 London

Provenance

Jonathan Richardson, Jr., London (1694 - 1771) (Lugt 2170). Benjamin West, London (1738 - 1820) (Lugt 419). (sale, Sotheby's London, 21 November 1974, no. 6). Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

List, Herbert
Ratjen, Ursula and Adolf
Richardson, Jr., Jonathan
Sotheby's, London
Stiftung Ratjen
West, Benjamin

Exhibition History

1977: Stiftung Ratjen, Italienische Zeichnungen des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich; Kupferstichkabinett Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, 146, no. 67 (entry by Richard Harprath).

1979: Zeichnungen italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München. Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, 26, no. 38.

1992: Drawing in Bologna, 1500 - 1600, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1992, no. 58 (Elizabeth Llewellyn and Cristiana Romalli).

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 13.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 13.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2011, no. 4.

Bibliography

1986: Fortunati Pietrantonio, Vera, ed. Pittura bolognese del '500 2 vols. Bologna, 1986, 2: 477-478, reprod. 497.