An Elegant Company Playing Board Games

1756

Johann Esaias Nilson

Artist, German, 1721 - 1788

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and gray ink with gray wash, corrected with white gouache, over traces of graphite, on laid paper, incised throughout, the verso reddened for transfer

  • Credit Line

    Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 16.5 x 26.5 cm (6 1/2 x 10 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.111.134

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4 December 1974, no. 3). (Paul Prouté, Paris, 1976). (Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich) in 1976. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2010

  • German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, no. 29, under nos. 4 and 20.

Bibliography

1976

  • Dessins originaux anciens et modernes, estampes anciennes du XVè siècle, estampes originales de maîres des XIXè et XXè siècles, Paul Prouté, 1974, no. 21.

Watermarks

VI

Wikidata ID

Q64581952

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