Studies of Figures (verso), c. 1586

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink over red chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 28.8 x 22.2 cm (11 5/16 x 8 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.81.b

Artists / Makers

Ambrogio Figino (artist) Italian, 1548 - 1608

Image Use

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Inscription

Verso, at lower left in graphite: 298

Provenance

(sale, Gerd Rosen, Berlin, 1 December 1959, no. 298). Herbert List, Munich;Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

List, Herbert
Ratjen, Ursula and Adolf
Rosen, Gerd
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1965: Zeichnungen alter Meister aus deutschem Privatbesitz, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunsthalle, Bremen; Graphische Sammlung, Stuttgart. Stuttgart, 1965, no. 19, pl. 12.

1977: Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts, Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, no. 14.

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz, Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 11.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 11.

2004: Pittori della realtà: Le Ragioni di una Rivoluzione da Foppa e Leonardo a Caravaggio e Ceruti. Museo civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004, 261 (entry by Linda Wolk-Simon).

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 11.