The Transport of the Ark of the Covenant, c. 1690

Not on View

pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on cream laid paper

sheet: 40.8 x 32.1 cm (16 1/16 x 12 5/8 in.), with both corners at bottom and small pieces along bottom and right margins replaced

2007.111.94

Nicola Malinconico (artist) Italian, 1663 - 1721

verso, pen and brown ink, [indecipherable, but possibly] [?]randolfi Gengo[?] [followed by a paraphe?]

Unidentified private collector of Luca Giordano(1). Jacques Petithory, Paris; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

1. See David Lachenmann, Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Collection, Vaduz, Bern, 1996, no. 35, note 1.

Petithory, Jacques
Private Collection
Stiftung Ratjen

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 35 (as Luca Giordano).

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 35 (as Luca Giordano).

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2011, no. 40.

2001: Meyer, Joachim. "New Drawings by Luca Giordano and His Circle: Nicolò Russo, Baldassarre Farina, Nicola and Oronzo Malinconico." Paragone 52, 3rd series, no. 39 (619) (September 2001): 88, pl. 65.