Studies of Saint James the Greater, c. 1686

Not on View

Medium

red chalk heighted with white chalk on blue laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 42 x 25.4 cm (16 9/16 x 10 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.123

Artists / Makers

Carlo Maratta (artist) Italian, 1625 - 1713

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right, brown ink, by Alessandro Maggiori, Carlo Maratti/fece; verso, brown ink: Aless. Maggiori compró/ a Roma nel/ 1804

Provenance

Alessandro Maggiori, Faenza and Rome, 1804 (Lugt 3005b). (sale, Sotheby's London, 15 June 1983, no. 53); Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Maggiori, Alessandro
Sotheby's, London
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 32.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 32.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 39.