The Birth of the Virgin, 1605/1610

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown and red ink with brown and sanguine wash over red chalk, heightened with white gouache and squared in red chalk on laid paper washed ochre

Dimensions

sheet: 33.7 x 23.1 cm (13 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.155

Artists / Makers

Ventura Salimbeni (artist) Sienese, 1568 - 1613

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left, brown ink, Ventura Salimbeni (erased); bottom of mount, gray ink, Dessein p.r le tableau de la Naissance de la S.t V.ge que le Ch.r Vanni a fait p.r l'eg.e des Rel.x de la Mere de J.C. de luques/no. 29; lower right , brown ink, #.o 7; verso of mount, upper right, brown ink, #.o 7; verso of mount, center, graphite, G. Usslaub/1881.; verso of mount, lower left, graphite, Ventura Salimbeni

Provenance

Paignon-Dijonval, France. George Usslaub, Marseille (born 1845) (Lugt 1221). Jacques Petithory, Paris (not in Lugt). Private collection, Geneva; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Dijonval, Gilbert Paignon
Petithory, Jacques
Stiftung Ratjen
Usslaub, Georg

Exhibition History

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 15.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 15.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2011, no. 23.