The Coronation of the Virgin

1585/1594

Jacopo Palma il Giovane

Artist, Venetian, 1544 or 1548 - 1628

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink and some gray ink with brown wash over charcoal on brown prepared oatmeal paper, heightened with white

  • Credit Line

    Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 29.5 × 27.6 cm (11 5/8 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.111.139

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Herman Walter de Zoete; (sale, Christie's London, 6 December 1972, no. 40); Herbert List, Munich; Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; 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. Munich, 1977, 70, no. 29 (entry by Richard Harprath).

1979

  • Zeichnungen italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München. Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, 50, no. 76.

2011

  • Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 17.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 31.

2018

  • Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019, no. 74.

Bibliography

1977

  • Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1977: 70-71.

1984

  • Fischer, Chris. Italian Drawings in The J. F. Willumsen Collection. The J. F. Willumsen Museum, Frederikssund, 1984: 24, under cat. no. 7.

  • Mason Rinaldi, Stefania. Palma il Giovane, L'opera completa. Milan, 1984: 160 (under D 127) 188, 264 fig. 197 (wrongly captioned as belonging to the Hermitage, Leningrad).

2001

  • Rearick, William R. Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento. Milan, 2001: 187, 232, note 294, fig. 98.

2011

  • Italian Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1525-1835. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011: 48-49.

Wikidata ID

Q64580075

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