The Rape of Ganymede, c. 1545

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Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash and watercolor over traces of black chalk, heightened with white on laid paper washed light brown; laid down

Dimensions

overall: 38.9 x 28.9 cm (15 5/16 x 11 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

Accession Number

2006.11.1

Artists / Makers

Niccolò dell' Abate (artist) Italian, 1509 or 1512 - 1571

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center in pen and brown ink: Ganymede; by Jonathan Richardson Sr. on mount, lower center in pen and brown ink: Perino.

Provenance

Unidentified 18th-century collector (his mount stamped in gold, similar to mounts from the collection of Lord Yarmouth); Jonathan Richardson Sr. [1665-1745] (Lugt 2184), London; John Clayton (sale, London, Christie's, 11 May 1908, lot 85, as Pietro Buonaccorsi); (sale, London, Christie's, 6 July 1976, lot 90); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Anonymous
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Clayton, John
Richardson, Sr., Jonathan
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Andrea
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1983: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu and tour, 1983-85, no. 17.

1986: Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 32.

1986: Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 26.

1987: Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 23.

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 30.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 50.

2005: Nicolò dell'Abate, Storie dipinte nella pittura del Cinquecento tra Modena e Fontainebleau, Modena, Foro Boario, 2005, no. 94 (Sylvie Béguin and Francesca Piccinini).

2006: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2017: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

n.d.: Ward, Roger. "Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Washington, D.C." The Burlington Magazine 126, no. 973 (April 1984): 251, 252 (under no.. 17).

1976: Herbert, John., ed. Christie's Review of the Season. New York, 1976: 97 (repro.).

1995: La pittura in Emilia e in Romagna: Il Conquecento. Credito Romagnolo, Italy, 1995: p. 157.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 50.