Campagniolo romano, c. 1833

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on laid paper from a ledger book (ruled in red)

Dimensions

sheet: 27.8 x 42.7 cm (10 15/16 x 16 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Andrea Woodner

Accession Number

2007.111.22

Artists / Makers

Friedrich Nerly (artist) German, 1807 - 1878

Image Use

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Inscription

at upper right in graphite: Campagniolo romano; at lower left: schwartzes Stiefelleder/heller braun das Spornleder; below that: il Pettorale; at lower right: 141; verso, a graphite sketch of a lnadscape with three fishermen in a boat and a pen and brown ink sketch of dogs and horsemen drinking at a fountain; verso, printed in black ink : 85 [page number]; in graphite: F. Nerly 1833

Provenance

Eva Denckler-Winkler, Zuirch; 1980 to Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, no. 90, under no. 87.

Bibliography

2010: Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." NGA Bulletin, Spring 2010: 10, fig. 12.