Rocky Landscape with a Natural Arch, c. 1575

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white gouache on blue laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 20.9 x 26.9 cm (8 1/4 x 10 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Diane A. Nixon

Accession Number

2007.111.58

Artists / Makers

Gherardo Cibo (artist) Italian, 1512 - 1600

Image Use

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Inscription

verso, at lower right in graphite: 924 (encircled and upside down); across bottom margin on small sliver of white paper pasted down, in graphite (upside down): J. de Momper le Jeune 1564-1635

Provenance

Louis Deglatigny, Rouen (1854 - 1936) (Lugt1768a). P. and N. de Boer, Amsterdam; De Boer Foundation, Amsterdam; (their sale, Christie's London, 4 July 1995, no. 25). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Deglatigny, Louis
P. & N. de Boer Foundation
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1966: Oude Tekeningen: Een Keuze uit de Verzameling P. en N. de Boer. Singer Museum, Laren, The Netherlands, 1966, no. 219 (reproduced p. 49 with incorrect cat. no.)(as Bartholomeus Spranger).

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 10.

Bibliography

1969: Bolten, Jaap. "Messer Ulisse Serverino da Cingoli, A Bypath in the History of Art." Master Drawings 7, no. 2 (Summer 1969): 137, no. 4.