Saint Ignatius Leaving Antioch
1773
Artist, German, 1725 - 1798
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor, white gouache, black wash, and pen and black ink over graphite on laid paper
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Credit Line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Diane A. Nixon
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Dimensions
sheet: 38.4 x 30.3 cm (15 1/8 x 11 15/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.74
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Siegfried Laemmle [1863-1953]. (sale, Weinmüller, Munich, 9-10 March, 1939, no. 726, as Leitkrath); Bernhard Funck, [1895-1993] Munich (Lugt 3835), until 1977; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, 35, no. 33.
Bibliography
1987
Hamacher, Bärbel. Entwurf und Ausführung in der süddeutschen Freskomalerei des 18. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1987: 135-136, no. 168, fig. 76 (as Joseph Leitkrath).
Inscriptions
at bottom center in brown ink: Jos. Leitkrath, and right center in brown ink: Abschied des Heiligen von seinen betrübten Schühlern zu Antiochia [departure of the saint from his sorrowing pupils in Antioch]; at bottom left in pen and black ink, a drawn scale; verso, at bottom right in graphite: G 1709/3430 (the latter crossed out)
Watermarks
J Honig & Zoonen; large shield
Wikidata ID
Q64581872