Ladies and Gentlemen Playing Billiards, 1756

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with gray and black wash over traces of graphite, heightened with white gouache on laid paper, incised throughout and laid down

Dimensions

sheet: 17.6 x 25.1 cm (6 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.133

Artists / Makers

Johann Esaias Nilson (artist) German, 1721 - 1788

Image Use

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Inscription

signed and dated at bottom right in black ink: Inv: et dessiné par J: E: Nilson 1756; verso, in graphite: Lavis No. 4 fond. Alien [?]/ Cadre 3821/30 x 38

Provenance

(sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4 December 1974, no. 5). (Paul Prouté, Paris, 1976). (Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich) in 1976. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Drouot, Hôtel
Prouté, S.A., Paul
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, no. 30, under nos. 4 and 20.

Bibliography

1976: Dessins originaux anciens et modernes, estampes anciennes du XVè siècle, estampes originales de maîres des XIXè et XXè siècles, Paul Prouté, S.A., 1974, no. 22.

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