A Thesis Design with Doctors of the Church, 1747

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash and traces of graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 29.6 x 20.7 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.72

Artists / Makers

Gottfried Eichler the Younger (artist) German, 1715 - 1770

Image Use

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Inscription

signed and dated at bottom right in brown ink: G Eichler inv del 1747 [partially trimmed]; in the cartouche at top right: perpetuum/corona/ta/trium/phat; in the cartouche held by a putto at lower left: i; at lower center in the small cartouche flanked by putti: 2

Provenance

Bernhard Funck [1895-1993], Munich; acquired 1976 by Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Funck, Bernhard
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, 92-93, no. 20 (entry by Peter Prange).