The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, c. 1600

Not on View

Medium

oil over graphite heightened with white, on laid paper; laid down

Dimensions

overall: 39.8 x 33.9 cm (15 11/16 x 13 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

Accession Number

2006.11.4

Artists / Makers

Federico Barocci (artist) Italian, probably 1535 - 1612

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in pen and brown ink: Ba.... (abraded)

Provenance

Possibly Giorgio Lavalas, Urbino; unidentified collector (similar to Lugt 2883); (William H. Schab Gallery, New York); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 1977; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Anonymous
Schab Gallery, Inc., William H.
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Andrea
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1974: Master Prints and Drawings from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. William H. Schab Gallery, New York, 1974, no. 1 (as Barocci).

1978: The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci: Selected Drawings and Prints. Cleveland Museum of Art and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1978, no. 67 (as Barocci)(cat. by Edmund P. Pillsbury and Louise S. Richards).

1983: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection. J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu; Kimbell Art Museum, Dallas; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1983-84, no. 24 (as Barocci)(cat. by George Goldner).

1986: Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 35 (as Barocci).

1986: Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner. Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1986, 248, no. VI, color reprod. p. XX (as Barocci).

1987: Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, 88-89, no. 25 (as Barocci).

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 33 (as Barocci).

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 62 (entry by Diane De Grazia)

2006: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007 (no cat.).

2017: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1987: Melikian, Souren. "A Master Collector. Ian Woodner: An Eye for the Future." Art & Auction 10, no. 4 (November 1987): 85, repro. p. 84 (as Barocci).

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 62.

2012: Bohn, Babette. "Drawing as Artistic Invention: Federico Barocci and the Art of Design." In exh. cat. Federico Barocci, Renaissance Master of Color and Line. Saint Louis Art Museum, 2012, 55 (fig. 37), 56 (as Barocci).