Diana Resting after the Hunt
1775/1780
Artist, German, 1725 - 1798
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor, pen and gray ink, and gray wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, over graphite, laid down on old album sheet
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Credit Line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Diane A. Nixon
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Dimensions
sheet: 17.8 x 35.1 cm (7 x 13 13/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.73
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Siegfried Laemmle [1863-1953], Munich and Los Angeles; his son Walter Laemmle, Munich and Los Angeles. (Blumka Gallery, New York); sold 2004 to Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1956
German and Austrian Prints and Drawings of the Eighteenth Century. The University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, 1956, no. 24 (as Johann Evangelist Holzer).
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, no. 34.
Bibliography
1923
Feulner, Adolf. Bayerisches Rokoko. Munich, 1923: 98 (as Johann Holzer).
1970
Dasser, Karl Ludwig. Johann Baptist Enderle (1725-1798). Ein schwäbischer Maler des Rokoko. Weissenhorn, 1970: 71, 157, fig. 184.
1987
Hamacher, Bärbel. Entwurf und Ausführung in der süddeutschen Freskomalerei des 18. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1987: 47, 169, no. 105.
1998
Batz, Karl, et al. Der Donauwörther Rokokomaler Johann Baptist Enderle (1725-1798). Donauwörth, 1998: 35 ("Diana").
2007
Ludwig, Heidrun. Die Gemälde des 18. Jahrhunderts im Landesmuseum Mainz. Mainz am Rhein, 2007: 76, 77 n. 269.
2010
Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." NGA Bulletin, Spring 2010: 7, fig. 8.
Inscriptions
on mount at bottom left in graphite: Jo: Holzer A.V.
Wikidata ID
Q64581873