The Veneration of St. Atto’s Miraculously Preserved Body, c. 1607

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, with perspective lines in graphite and corrections in white gouache, on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 26.4 x 38 cm (10 3/8 x 14 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.179

Artists / Makers

Benedetto Veli (artist) Italian, 1564 - 1639

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center, black chalk and black ink, D. Passignano; in image, center right and lower right, brown ink, numbers and measurements; verso of mount, center, graphite, 104 [encircled]; verso of mount, center right, brown ink [vertically], 2.14; verso of mount, upper left, black chalk, 253; verso of mount, along left margin, graphite [vertically], Passignano; verso of mount, lower left, graphite, X

Provenance

Baron Horace de Landau [1824-1903] Florence (Lugt 1334c); his niece Madame Hugo Finaly [d. 1938], Florence. Tor Engestroem, Stockholm. (sale, Christie's London, 5 July 1983, no. 53, as Domenico Passignano). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Engestroem, Tor
Landau-Finaly
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 20 (as Domenico Passignano).

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 20.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2011, no. 24.