The Adoration of the Magi, 1756

Not on View

pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache and yellow chalk, over graphite with traces of pricking on blue laid paper

overall: 28.9 x 19.8 cm (11 3/8 x 7 13/16 in.)

2007.111.176

Georg Anton Urlaub (artist) German, 1713 - 1759

by the artist at lower left in brown ink: a Königheim; at bottom left corner: traces of graphite [erased], and Roman and Arabic numerals [illeg.]

(sale, Gerd Rosen, Berlin, 18 November 1957, no. 512). (sale, Kornfeld, Bern, 17 June 1987, no. 251). Wolfgang Ratjen; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Stiftung Ratjen

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, 36, 98 (under no. 23), 100-101, no. 24.

2023: Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

1996: Georg Anton Urlaub, Ein fränkischer Maler im Banne Tiepolos. Exh. cat. Mainfränkisches Museum, Würzburg, 1996: 41, 44, note 38, 160 (under no. 96), 166 (under no. 97).