Venetian Ships Attacking Constantinople
1598/1605
Artist, Venetian, 1560 - 1635
Artwork overview
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Medium
brush and tempera over some squaring in black chalk, on dark brown paper (upper right corner and irregular sides made up; laid on modern card)
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Credit Line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin
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Dimensions
overall: 43 × 22 cm (16 15/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.174
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sohn-Rethel Collection, Rome, 1926. (Douwes Fine Art Ltd., London); Wolfgang Ratjen [1947-1997], Vaduz and Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1995
Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 9.
1996
Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 9.
2011
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 19.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 37.
2018
Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019, no. 61.
Bibliography
1944
Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. New York, 1944: 267, no. 1546 bis.
1995
Lachenmann, David. Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Vaduz, 1995: no. 9.
1996
Lachenmann, David. Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. Exh. cat. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996: no. 9.
2001
Roettig, Petra, Annamarie Stefes, and Andreas Stolzenburg. Von Dürer bis Goya: 100 Meisterzeichnungen aus dem Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle. Hamburger Kunsthalle. Hamburg, 2001: 42-43, under no. 16 (entry by Stolzenburg).
2008
Klemm, David, Hubertus Gassner, and Andreas Stolzenburg. Von Leonardo bis Piranesi: Italienische Zeichnungen von 1450 bis 1800 aus dem Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle. Hamburger Kunsthalle. Bremen, 2008: 124, 229 note 2, under no. 55 (entry by Klemm).
2009
Klemm, David. Italienische Zeichnungen 1450-1800. Die Sammlungen der Hamburger Kunsthalle Kupferstichkabinett, Bd. 2. 3 vols. Cologne, 2009, 1: 348, under no. 530.
2011
Italian Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1525-1835. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011: 52-55.
Wikidata ID
Q64541083