Worshippers at the Tomb of Saint Peter

1740/1741

Matthäus Günther

Artist, German, 1705 - 1788

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor, gouache, and graphite over pen and brown ink, indented with a stylus, on pink-gray prepared paper, squared with graphite for transfer

  • Credit Line

    Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Vincent and Linda Buonanno

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 48.2 x 36.2 cm (19 x 14 1/4 in.), trimmed to a roughly circular shape with ornamental lobes and angles
    image: 38 x 35.4 cm (14 15/16 x 13 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.111.13

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Baron von Freiherr von Freyberg-Eisenberg. (Kunsthaus Julius Böhler, Munich) in 1989. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2010

  • German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 19, no. 16.

2023

  • Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

1995

  • Paula, Georg. "Nachträge zum Werk von Matthäus Günther (1705 - 1788). Eine kritische Zusammenfassung." Jahrbuch des Vereins für Augsburger Bistumsgeschichte 29 (1995): 233-234, abb. 85.

2010

  • Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." NGA Bulletin, Spring 2010: 6-7, fig. 7.

Inscriptions

at bottom center in graphite: N 1026; at bottom right: J. C. Wengner 1774; on verso: Aus der Sammlung der Freiherrn v. Freyberg-Eisenberg

Watermarks

shield with bull's head and crown?

Wikidata ID

Q64608403

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