The Angel Carrying off Habakkuk by His Hair, Surrounded by an Elaborate Rococo Frame, c. 1750

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Medium

pen and black ink with gray wash over graphite, heightened with white gouache and incised throughout, on two joined sheets of blue laid paper, the verso reddened for transfer

Dimensions

sheet: 50.9 x 70.6 cm (20 1/16 x 27 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Accession Number

2007.111.4

Artists / Makers

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner (artist) German, 1709 - 1761

Image Use

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Provenance

(sale, Phillips, London, 7 July 1993, no. 111). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 94-95, no. 21.

Bibliography

2001: Lachenmann, David. "Wolfgang Ratjen as Collector." Master Drawings 39 (2001): 109-110, fig. 6.