The Glorification of a Prelate
c. 1780
Artist, Austrian, 1743 - 1807

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 45.6 x 34.6 cm (17 15/16 x 13 5/8 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.125
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 25-26 November 1987, no. 217, as Venetian. (Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich). Acquired as Maulbertsch by Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, 116-117, no. 32.
Bibliography
2003
Dachs, Monika. "Franz Anton Maulbertsch und sein Kreis: Studien zur Wiener Malerei in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts." Unpublished dissertation. University of Vienna, 2003: 80, 362, no. 136, fig. 239 (as Maulbertsch).
2007
Seferisová Loudová, Michaela."'dieses Altarbild ist eine des schönsten und fleissigsten Arbeiten dieses würdigen Künstlers.' Das Altarblatt und die Ölskizze der Hll. Leopold und Liborius von Joseph Stern." Franz Anton Maulbertsch und Mitteleuropa. Festschrift zum 30-Jährigen Bestehen des Museums Langenargen. Edited by Eduard Hindelang and Lubomir Slavicek. Langenargen-Brünn, 2007: 218, note 37 (as Maulbertsch).
2009
Seferisová Loudová, Michaela. "Maulbertsch and Stern in Kromeriz--On the History of Two Drawings." Acta Historiae Artium 50 (2009): 100-103, figs. 9-10 (as Maulbertsch).
Inscriptions
verso at bottom left in graphite: 9155
Watermarks
bunch of grapes below IAI [?]below fleur-de-lys resting in an open crown (compare Churchill 474)
Wikidata ID
Q64591099