Two Nude Children Lifting a Cudgel
c. 1748
Artist, Italian, 1708 - 1787
Artwork overview
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Medium
red chalk heightened with white chalk on paper washed ochre, partially squared for transfer in red chalk
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Credit Line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Diane A. Nixon
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Dimensions
sheet: 28 x 21 cm (11 x 8 1/4 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.48
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Catalogue Raisonné
Clark 1985 no. D 219
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
from an album belonging to Veuve Galippe (sale, de Vries, Amsterdam, 27-29 March 1923, lot 515, as Anton Raphael Mengs); Fritz Haussmann, Berlin; Carmen, Countess Finckenstein, Zurich and Ascona. Herbert List, Munich (not in Lugt); Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1977
Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts, Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1977 - 1978, Munich, no. 112.
1979
Zeichnungen Italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979: 96, no. 166 (not reproduced).
1995
Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz, Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 49.
1996
Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 49.
2011
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 48.
Bibliography
1985
Clark, Anthony M. Pompeo Batoni. A Complete Catalogue of His Works with an Introductory Text. Edited and prepared for publication by Edgar Peters Bowron. New York, 1985: 243 (under no. 123), 387, no. D 219.
Liechtenstein: The Princely Collections. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985: 225, under no. 144 (entry by Keith Christiansen).
2008
Pompeo Batoni, 1708-1787: L'Europa delle Corti e il Grand Tour. Palazzo Ducale, Lussa. Milan, 2008: 207-109, fig. 14.
Wikidata ID
Q64619715