Ladies and Gentlemen Playing Billiards

1756

Johann Esaias Nilson

Artist, German, 1721 - 1788

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray and black wash over traces of graphite, heightened with white gouache on laid paper, incised throughout and laid down

  • Credit Line

    Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 17.6 x 25.1 cm (6 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.111.133

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4 December 1974, no. 5). (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. 30, 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, S.A., 1974, no. 22.

1978

  • Ebertshäuser, Heidi. "Die Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz." Graphische Kunst, Memmingen 10 (1978): 7 (reprod. p. 4).

Inscriptions

signed and dated at bottom right in black ink: Inv: et dessiné par J: E: Nilson 1756; verso, in graphite: Lavis No. 4 fond. Alien [?]/ Cadre 3821/30 x 38

Wikidata ID

Q64581953

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