Minerva and the Muses, c. 1610

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over pen and brown and gray ink and traces of graphite, heightened with white gouache, on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 28.3 x 38.3 cm (11 1/8 x 15 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.30

Artists / Makers

Hans Rottenhammer (artist) German, 1564 - 1625

Image Use

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Provenance

William, Second Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth (1665 - 1729) (Lugt 718). C. Robert Rudolph, London (b. 1884) (Lugt 2811b); (his sale, Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 18 April 1977, no. 28). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Devonshire, William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of
Rudolph, C.R.
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1962: Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. C. R. Rudolf, The Arts Council, London, 1962, 30, no. 159.

1965: Between Renaissance and Baroque: European Art, 1520 - 1600, Manchester City Art Gallery (UK), 1965, 111, no. 372.

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, 36, no. 3.

Bibliography

1978: Ebertshäuser, Heidi. "Die Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz." Graphische Kunst 10 (1978): 4 (reprod.), 7.

1988: Schlichtenmaier, Harry. Studien zum Werk Hans Rottenhammers des Älteren (1564-1625), Maler und Zeichner, mit Werkkatalog. Tübingen (1988): 125, 141, 346-347, no. Z I 79.

1995: Tacke, Andreas. Die Gemälde des 17. Jahrhunderts im Germanischen Nationalmuseum. Mainz, 1995: 207, under cat. 101.

2001: Lachenmann, David. "Wolfgang Ratjen as Collector." Master Drawings 39 (2001): 106 (fig. 4), 109, and 113 note 10.

2008: Borggrefe, Heiner, et al. Hans Rottenhammer, begehrt - vergessen - neu entdeckt. Weserrenaissance-Museum Schloss Brake (Lemgo, Germany), 2008: 141, under no. 43, fig. 190.