The Angel Appearing to Hagar and Ishmael, 1726/1727

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink and brown wash over black and red chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 15.6 x 25.1 cm (6 1/8 x 9 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1987.8.1

Artists / Makers

Sebastiano Ricci (artist) Venetian, 1659 - 1734

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in brown ink: B. Rizzi; lower right verso in brown ink: B. Ri[cc]i

Marks and Labels

blind stamp at lower right, HL in a square border

Provenance

Herbert List [Lugt 4063]; to Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Liechtenstein, who purchased the entire List collection; Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 January 1987, no. 202, repro. p. 76); NGA purchase via David Tunick, Inc.

Associated Names

Sotheby's
Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

2006: The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006 (no catalogue).