God the Father and the Holy Spirit Receiving the Body of Christ, 1660/1665

Not on View

Medium

red and black chalk with sanguine and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on beige laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 40.2 x 29 cm (15 13/16 x 11 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.59

Artists / Makers

Guglielmo Cortese (artist) Italian, born France, 1628 - 1679

Image Use

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Inscription

verso, a red chalk sketch of the lower half of Christ's body supported by angels; inscribed at bottom center, brown ink, A: Carats. [illegible] Carraci/nacquit in Bologna 1560. ob: 1609/ Malvasia p:3 fol:357. Bellorio. f.o 19.

Provenance

Jacques Petithory, Paris (not in Lugt). (sale, Nouveau Drouot, Paris, 1-2 March 1983, no. 42, as "attributed to Lodovico Carracci). Private collection, Zurich; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Drouot, Hôtel
Petithory, Jacques
Private Collection, Zurich
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung,. Vaduz, 1995, no. 29.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 29.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 35.

Bibliography

2011: Tarantino, Antoine, ed. Peindre à Rome. Exh. cat. Galerie Antoine Tarantino, Paris, 2011: 46, reprod. p. 49, under no. 9 (entry by Valeria Di Giuseppe Di Paolo).