Studies of the Virgin and Child with Saints, c. 1611

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over red chalk (only in the study of the Madonna at the top) on cream laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 35 x 24.9 cm (13 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.24.a

Artists / Makers

Jacopo Palma il Giovane (artist) Venetian, 1544 or 1548 - 1628

Image Use

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Provenance

The so-called "Sagredo-Borghese Album"(1). Dr. Barry Delany, Kilkenny (Lugt 350). Unidentified private collector (not in Lugt). Justice James Murnaghan [1881-1973], Dublin. (sale, Christie's London, 11 April 1978, no. 6). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased by NGA, 2007.

(1) See Palais des Congrès, Catalogue de l'exposition de dessins italiens du XVe au XVIIIe s. de la collection H. de Marignane, Monte Carlo, 1966.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Delany, Barry, Dr.
Murnaghan, Justice James
Private Collection
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1979: Zeichnungen Italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München. Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, 50, no. 78.

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 6.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 6.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 16.

Bibliography

1974: Mason Rinaldi, Stefania. "Precisazioni cronologiche su due dipinti di Palma il Giovane" Arte Veneta 28 (1974): 250-251, figs. 318-319.

1984: Mason Rinaldi, Stefania. Palma il Giovane, L'opera completa. Milan, 1984: 111 (under no. 290), 162 (under D 158), 164, no. D 189, 375, figs. 473-474.

1990: Brugerolles, Emmanuelle. Les dessins vénitiens des collections de l'École des Beaux-Arts. École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Paris, 1990: 66, 68, under no. 32.