Christ among the Doctors

1520s

Bartolomeo Ramenghi

Associated Names
Bartolomeo Ramenghi

Artist, Italian, 1484 - 1542

This is a drawing of an architectural scene with multiple figures. The work presents a detailed and complex interior space dominated by towering arches and columns. In the foreground, figures gather and gesticulate. They are robed in flowing garments. The central figure is slightly elevated and seated beneath an alcove. The interplay of light and shadow creates a sense of depth and volume. The use of monochromatic tones accentuates the figures and the architectural elements.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    point of the brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache over black chalk on paper washed gray-green, on two joined sheets

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jeffrey Horvitz

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 70 × 53.4 cm (27 9/16 × 21 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.180.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Ambroise Tardieu [1818-1879], Paris (Lugt 183b); Nicos Dhikeos [1898-1987], Lyon and Cyprus (Lugt 3529); Jean-Pierre Selz, New York (as Biagio Pupini); The Horvitz Collection, Boston, 1990 (inv. D-I-2); (sale, New York, Sotheby's, 23 January 2008, no. 28, unsold); gift to NGA in 2016

Associated Names

Bibliography

2008

  • Joannides, Paul. "A Bolognese Project by the Young Parmigianino." Master Drawings 46, no. 3 (Autumn 2008): 355 (fig. 2), 356, 365 note 11.

Inscriptions

At lower center in brown ink: Antonio da Coreggio

Wikidata ID

Q64537162

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