The Angel Appearing to Hagar in the Desert (recto), c. 1660

Not on View

Medium

brush and pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on light beige laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 18.9 x 27 cm (7 7/16 x 10 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.130.a

Artists / Makers

Pier Francesco Mola (artist) Italian, 1612 - 1666

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right, brown ink, A: v: D.

Provenance

Jan Pietersz Zoomer, Amsterdam (1641 - 1724) (Lugt 1511). Jonathan Richardson, Sr., London (1665 - 1745) (Lugt 2184). Earl Spencer, Althorp (18th century) (Lugt 1531). (sale, T. Philipe, London, 14 June 1811, part of lot 494). (sale, Sotheby's London, 23 March 1972, no. 100); (Alfred Brod, London, 1972); Armando Neerman, London; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Brod, Alfred
Neerman, Armando, Mr.
Philipe, Thomas
Richardson, Sr., Jonathan
Sotheby's, London
Spencer, The Earls
Stiftung Ratjen
Zoomer, Jan Pietersz

Exhibition History

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 31.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 31.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 34.

Bibliography

1972: Bean, Jacob. Review of Richard Cocke, Pier Francesco Mola . Master Drawings 10, no. 4 (Winter 1972): 386.

1978: Ebertshäuser, Heidi. "Die Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz." Graphische Kunst 10 (1978): 6.

1984: Pommier, Henriette, and Evelyne Gaudry. Dessins du XVIe au XIXe siècle de la collection du Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Lyon. Musée Historique des Tissus. Lyon, 1984: 44.

1989: Pier Francesco Mola, 1612 - 1666. Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano. Milan, 1989: 263, under no. III.65 (entry by Nicholas Turner).

2006: Loire, Stéphane. Peintures italiennes du XVIIe siècle du musée du Louvre. Paris, 2006: 224.