Ruth and Boas, 1825

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 21.7 x 25.8 cm (8 9/16 x 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.163

Artists / Makers

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (artist) German, 1794 - 1872

Image Use

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Inscription

signed and dated at bottom left in brown ink: 18 IS [in monogram] 25; verso in graphite: Schnorr...5307...(2)

Provenance

(C. G. Boerner Inc., Dusseldorf). (sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, 30 October 1956, no. 293). Gustav Stein, Cologne. (Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich) 1990. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Stein, Gustav
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1994: Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Zeichnungen, Landesmuseum Mainz and Vereinsbank, Munich (Palais Preysing). Munich, 1994 144-145, no. 57.

2008: L'Age d'or du romantisme allemand: Aquarelles et dessins à l'époque de Goethe, Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris, 2008, 262-263, no. 107.

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, 37, 174-175, no. 59.

Bibliography

1957: C. G. Boerner. Neue Lagerliste 19. Handzeichnungen aus vier Jahrhunderten. Düsseldorf, 1957: 14, no. 68 (reprod.).

1973: Muthmann, Ruth. "Die Graphische Sammlung Gustav Stein: Zu Einigen deutschen Blättern." In Festschrift für Gustav Stein. Edited by Fritz Berg and Berthold von Bohlen und Halbach. Cologne, 1973: 129, 134, pl. 2.

1998: "Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1794-1872, Ruth in Boaz's Field, 1828," The National Gallery Report, April 1997-March 1998. London, 1998: 14.

2001: Teichmann, Michael. Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794-1872) und seine Ölgemälde: Monographie und Werkverzeichnis. Frankfurt, 2001: 43, 128-132, 295, no. 16, fig. 35.