The Birth of the Virgin

1605/1610

Ventura Salimbeni

Artist, Sienese, 1568 - 1613

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown and red ink with brown and sanguine wash over red chalk, heightened with white gouache and squared in red chalk on laid paper washed ochre

  • Credit Line

    Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 33.7 x 23.1 cm (13 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.111.155

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paignon-Dijonval, France. George Usslaub, Marseille (born 1845) (Lugt 1221). Jacques Petithory, Paris (not in Lugt). Private collection, Geneva; Wolfgang Ratjen, 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. 15.

1996

  • Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 15.

2011

  • Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2011, no. 23.

Inscriptions

lower left, brown ink, Ventura Salimbeni (erased); bottom of mount, gray ink, Dessein p.r le tableau de la Naissance de la S.t V.ge que le Ch.r Vanni a fait p.r l'eg.e des Rel.x de la Mere de J.C. de luques/no. 29; lower right , brown ink, #.o 7; verso of mount, upper right, brown ink, #.o 7; verso of mount, center, graphite, G. Usslaub/1881.; verso of mount, lower left, graphite, Ventura Salimbeni

Wikidata ID

Q64633484

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