The Adoration of the Magi, c.1525

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache on blue laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 22.8 x 20.4 cm (9 x 8 1/16 in.), including a 15 mm strip added along lower edge

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.148

Artists / Makers

Biagio Pupini (artist) Bolognese, active 1511 - 1551

Image Use

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Provenance

Jonathan Richardson, Sr., London (1665 - 1745)(Lugt 2184); Sir Thomas Lawrence. Sir J. C. Robinson, London (1824 - 1913) (Lugt 1433). John Malcolm [1805-1893], Poltalloch; The Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy; Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy; the Hon. Robert Gathorne-Hardy; (his sale, Sotheby's London, 24 November 1976, no. 15); Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased by NGA, 2007

Associated Names

Gathorne-Hardy, Alfred E.
Gathorne-Hardy, Geoffrey
Gathorne-Hardy, Robert
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir
Malcolm, John
Richardson, Sr., Jonathan
Robinson, John Charles, Sir
Sotheby's, London
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1969: Italian 16th-Century Drawings from British Private Collections, The Merchants' Hall, Edinburgh, 1969, 34, no. 71.

1971: Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, P. & D. Colanaghi, Ltd., London; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1971 and 1972, no. 23, pl. XVII.

1977: Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, 144, no. 66 (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. 37.

1992: Drawing in Bologna, 1500-1600. Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, no. 48.

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 12.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 12.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2011, no. 2.

Bibliography

1869: Robinson, J. C. Descriptive Catalogue of the Drawings by the Old Masters, Forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, Esq.. London, 1869: 97, no. 231.

1902: Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings ... in the Possession of the Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy. London, 1902: no. 19.

2001: Un siècle de dessin à Bologne, 1480-1580: De la Renaissance à la réforme tridentine. Musée du Louvre. Paris, 2001: 65, under no 16 (entry by Marzia Faietti)(Italian ed: Il Cinquecento a Bologna: Disegni dal Louvre e dipinti a confronto. Pinacoteca Nazionale e Sale delle Belle Arti, Bologna. Milan, 2002).

2009: Turner, Nicholas. Drawn to Italian Drawings: The Goldman Collection. The Art Institute of Chicago. New Haven and London, 2009: 73, 303, under no. 21.