The Apotheosis of Saint Euphemia, 1759/1760

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Medium

pen and light brown ink with gray wash over graphite, strengthened with tip of the brush and dark gray wash, squared in red chalk on cream laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 81 × 56.1 cm (31 7/8 × 22 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.56

Artists / Makers

Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (artist) Italian, 1686 - 1775

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left, brown ink: 118 Carloni; verso, lower left, graphite [vertically]: questo è del Carloni di Milano, and lower right, red chalk [vertically]: dissegni dogni sorte de Autori; verso twice in graphite: 1028 [encircled]; verso, upper left, 16 [encircled], lower right, 175 [encircled]

Provenance

auction Finarte Milan, 9-10 June 1976, 175; purchased by Giuseppe Patitucci Gallery, Venice; purchased by Joseph and Maria Matzker, Bensberg; Wolfgang Ratjen [1943-1997], Vaduz and Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Matzker, Joseph and Maria
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1990: Carlo Carlone, 1686-1775, Der Ansbacher Auftrag. Ansbach, 1990: 180-181, no. 31, fig. 193 (entry by Brigitte Langer).

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 55.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 97.

2023: Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800

Bibliography

1989: Schmidt, Hans M. Himmel Ruhm und Herrlichtkeit. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne, 1989: 278.

1990: Kruckmann, Peter O. Carlo Carlone 1685-1775: Der Ansbacher Auftrag. Arcos, Landshut, 1990: 180-181.

2011: Italian Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1525-1835. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011: 126-127.