The Adoration of the Golden Calf
1595/1596
Artist, German, 1564 - 1625
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash, over black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 26.5 × 21.1 cm (10 7/16 × 8 5/16 in.)
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Accession
2015.181.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Piasa, Paris, 19 March 2004, no. 1, as attributed to Alessandro Maganza);(Jean Luc Baroni, Paris, 2005); private collection, England; (sale, Sotheby's London, 8 July 2015, no. 14); (via C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2015 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2005
Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, Jean Luc Baroni, Inc., New York, 2005, no. 6.
2018
Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018-2019, not in cat.
Bibliography
2016
Bober, Jonathan. "Hans Rottenhammer, The Adoration of the Golden Calf." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 54 (Spring 2016): 23, repro.
Inscriptions
by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 8
Wikidata ID
Q64573018