Saint Joseph and the Christ Child with Angels and Putti, 1590/1600

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with gray and brown wash, heightened with white gouache on blue laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 27.8 x 26.2 cm (10 15/16 x 10 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.145

Artists / Makers

Cesare Pollini (artist) Italian, c. 1560 - c. 1600

Image Use

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Inscription

On mount at top center in white chalk: N.69, and at lower center, BASTIANINO; on verso at center in blue ballpoint (vertically), by a descendant of Juan and Felix Bernasconi: Maria [illeg.] de Bernasconi/1977; across bottom in graphite: Sebastiano Filippi detto il Bastianino 1532-1602

Provenance

Carlo Prayer, Milan [1826 - 1900] (Lugt 2044). Juan and Felix Bernasconi, 1977 (not in Lugt); by descent; (sale, Christie's London, 7 July 1987, no. 70); (Stephen Somerville Ltd., London); Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bernasconi, Juan and Felix
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Prayer, Carlo
Somerville, Stephen
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1988: Exhibition of Watercolours, Drawings & Paintings. Stephen Somerville Ltd. at Bernheimers. London, 1988, no. 2.

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

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 16.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 12.

Bibliography

2005: Di Giampaolo, Mario. "Cesare Franchi detto il Pollino," in Amma Maria Ambrosini Massari and Marina Cellini, Nel segno di Barocci: Allievi e seguaci tra Marche, Umbria, Siena. Milan, 2005: 317.