The Ruins of an Ancient Amphitheater, c. 1701

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk on cream laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 41.7 x 54.1 cm (16 7/16 x 21 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.183

Artists / Makers

Gaspar van Wittel (artist) Dutch, 1652/1653 - 1736

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right, black chalk, Anfiteatro di Pozzuoli; verso, upper right, graphite (by Vincenzo Paccetti): 102

Provenance

Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, Rome. Vincenzo Pacetti, Rome. Paul Fatio, Geneva (not in Lugt). (sale, Nicolas Rauch, Geneva, 13-15 June 1960, no. 385). Richard Tüngel, Ahrensburg. Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Cavaceppi, Bartolomeo
Fatio, Paul
List, Herbert
Pacetti, Vincenzo
Ratjen, Ursula and Adolf
Rauch, S.A., Nicolas
Stiftung Ratjen
Tüngel, Paul

Exhibition History

1965: Zeichnungen alter Meister aus deutschem Privatbesitz. Kunstalle Hamburg, 1965, 15, no. 36, fig. 26.

1977: Stiftung Ratjen, Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staaliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, 200-201, no. 93 (entry by Dieter Graf).

1979: Zeichnungen italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich. Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, 94, no. 160.

1983: Gaspare Vanvitelli. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung. Munich, 1983, no. 42, fig. 9 (Richard Harprath).

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 34.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 34.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2011, no. 43.

2016: Recent Acquisitions of Dutch and Flemish Drawings, NGA, 2016.

Bibliography

1966: Briganti, Giuliano. Gaspar van Wittel e l'origine della veduta settecentesca. Rome, 1966: 273, no. 17d.

1977: Vitzthum, Walter. Drawings by Gaspar van Wittel. The National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa, 1977: 49, under no. 66.

1996: Briganti, Giuliano. Gaspar van Wittel. 2nd ed. Milan, 1996: 331, no. D 125.