The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception
1768/1778
Artist, Bolognese, 1728 - 1781
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over red chalk and graphite on cream laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 29.8 x 21.1 cm (11 3/4 x 8 5/16 in.)
image: 27.2 x 18.9 cm (10 11/16 x 7 7/16 in.) -
Accession
2007.111.11
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dr. Gustavo Frizzoni [1840-1919], Bergamo and Milan. Eva Denker-Winkler, Zurich; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1995
Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz, Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 37.
1996
Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern 1996, no. 37.
2011
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 60.
Bibliography
1989
Bagni, Prisco. "Nuove scoperte su Ubaldo Gandolfi." Atti e memorie 24 (nuova serie), 1989: 83, pl. 68.
1990
Biagi Maino, Donatella. Ubaldo Gandolfi. Torino, 1990: 89, 93, note 277, under no. 154, pl. xxxv (with incorrect location).
1992
Bagni, Prisco. I Gandolfi: affreschi, dipinti, bozzetti, disegni. Bologna(?), 1992: 104, no. 91
1995
Disegni emiliani dei secoli XVII-XVIII della Pinacoteca di Brera. Exh. cat. Chiesa di San Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna. Milan, 1995: 210, under no. 76 (entry by Prisco Bagni).
Inscriptions
verso, top left, graphite: 297 x 21 / GANDOLFI GAETANO; top center, brown ink: P. 8-; upper right, printed stamp adhered, numbered in graphite: 32; lower left, brown ink: Ubaldo Gandolfi; lower center, brown ink: F
Watermarks
anchor in a circle surmounted by a six-pointed star and the letter P below (similar to Heawood 8)
Wikidata ID
Q64633378