Ceiling Studies of a Prophet and a Putto Seen from Below

c. 1602/1607

Giulio Cesare Procaccini

Artist, Lombard, 1574 - 1625

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Skippe; by descent to Edward Holland Martin; (sale, Christie's London, 21 November 1958, no. 4, as Michelangelo Anselmi); Private collection, England; (sale, Christie's London, 1 July 1997, no. 30). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

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Exhibition History

2011

  • Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2011, no. 21.

2023

  • Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

1957

  • Popham, A.E. Correggio's Drawings. London, 1957: 170, no. 7 (as Anselmi).

2002

  • Brigstocke, Hugh. Procaccini in America. Exh. cat. Hall & Knight Ltd, London and New York. London, 2002: 14-15, pl. 11.

  • Bora, Giulio. "Sulla fortuna collezionistica del disegno lombardo nel Seicento: 'Difficoltà' di Giulio Cesare Procaccini," in "Aux Quatre Vents," A Festschrift for Bert W. Meijer. Florence, 2002: 91, note 17.

2004

  • Neilson, Nancy Ward. Giulio Cesare Procaccini Disegnatore Nomos, 2004: no. 132.

2024

  • Bober, Jonathan. "Seventeenth-century Milanese drawings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and some associated collections."Arte Lombarda 200-201, no. 1-2 (2024): 75, fig. 7.

Wikidata ID

Q64572466

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