The Holy Family, 1754/1762

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with gray-brown wash on cream laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 22.3 x 19.2 cm (8 3/4 x 7 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.42

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1696 - 1770

Image Use

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Provenance

Library of the monastery of the Padri Somaschi, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice. Count Leopoldo Cicognara. Antonio Canova; by descent to his half-brother, Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori-Canova. Francesco Pesaro, Venice, until 1842; Col. Edward Cheney, Badger Hall, Shropshire (1803 - 1884) (see Lugt 444); by descent to his brother-in-law, Col. Alfred Capel Cure, Blake Hall, Essex. (sale, Sotheby's London, 29 April 1885, no. 1024); Parsons. William Fagg, Sydenham. Messrs. B. T. Batsford, London. (sale, Christie's London, 14 July 1914, lot 49); (E. Parsons & Sons, London) (see Lugt supplement, 2881). (Savile Gallery, London). Franz Koenigs, Haarlem (1881 - 1941) (Lugt 1023a). D. G. van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Dr. Max J. Friedländer, Amsterdam; (his sale, Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 17 March 1959, no. 29). Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zurich; Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Beuningen, Daniel George van
Canova, Antonio
Cheney, Edward
Cicognara, Leopoldo, Count
Cure, Alfred Capel, Col.
Fagg, William
Friedländer, Max J., Dr.
Koenigs, Franz Wilhelm
Padri Somaschi
Parsons and Sons, E.
Pesaro, Francesco
Ratjen, Ursula and Adolf
Sartori-Canova, Giovanni Battista
Sotheby's, London
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1977: Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts, Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, 218, no. 100 (entry by Maria Santifaller).

1979: Zeichnungen Italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München. Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, 54, no. 87.

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 41.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 41.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 50.

Bibliography

1978: Ebertshäuser, Heidi. "Die Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz." Graphische Kunst 10 (1978): 7, 8.

1983: Byam Shaw, James. The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection. 3 vols. Paris, 1983, 1: 290, note 4 (under no. 278).